enable/disable menu items of mdiparent from another form

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i have a three form
mdiparent - information,login form and logout form
when i login with correct username and password menu on mdiparent form other than login and logout menu should enable true

Posted 16-Jul-12 20:01pm

Updated 13-Sep-20 5:08am

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*Suvabrata Roy* · Answer 1 · 2012-07-16T20:19:00

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Hi,

So you need some Code to do so...

In MDI from expose two menu Item as public and initially those two menu items as disable.

Now on application start open login from as MDI child and after successful login
cast login.parent as your MDI from and set those two menu Item enable.

Posted 16-Jul-12 20:19pm

Suvabrata Roy

*Karthik Harve* · Answer 2 · 2012-07-16T20:24:00

Hi,

try this in Login/logout form load event.

C#

Control[] controls = this.MdiParent.Controls.Find("Menu", true);
            foreach (Control ctrl in controls)
            {
                if (ctrl.Name == "Menu")
                {
                    MenuStrip strip = ctrl as MenuStrip;
                    strip.Items["login"].Enabled = false;
                    strip.Items["logout"].Enabled = false;
                }
            }

or once you get the menu control, you can enable/disable anything you want, you can change.

hope it helps.