How to: Interact with Windows Forms

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You can add Windows Forms to your Visual Studio Tools for Office projects the same way you do in other projects in Visual Studio. For more information, see Windows Forms Controls.

The following example uses a document-level project for Excel.

Note

Your computer might show different names or locations for some of the Visual Studio user interface elements in the following instructions. The Visual Studio edition that you have and the settings that you use determine these elements. For more information, see Visual Studio Settings.

To display a Windows Form

  1. Add a Windows Form to your project. In this example, the Windows Form is called ReportPicker.

  2. In the Startup event handler of your project, create a new instance of the form and call the ShowDialog method to display the modal form.

    Dim reportPicker As New ReportPicker
reportPicker.ShowDialog()

    ReportPicker reportPicker = new ReportPicker();
reportPicker.ShowDialog();

    Note

    You can also use the Show method to show a non-modal form.

See Also

Tasks

Walkthrough: Collecting Data Using a Windows Form

Concepts

Developing Office Solutions

Office Solutions Programming Model

Programming Application-Level Add-Ins

Programming Document-Level Customizations