Maximize MDI child form

Question

I\'m working on a legacy WinForms MDI application and have some trouble making the child forms behave as I want. My objective is to have the child form always maxim

Answer 1

The problem wasn't easy to solve, but I accidentally found the answer and it's quite simple; set the windowstate of the child form to Normal by default. Then make sure that you reset the windowstate of the child window AFTER you call the Show() method.

Example:

private void ShowNewForm(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  Form childForm = new Form();
  childForm.MdiParent = this;
  childForm.Text = "Window " + childFormNumber++;
  childForm.Show();
  childForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
}