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Creating MDI Window Menus

MDI applications often have a Window menu that displays a list of the currently open MDI child windows, with a check in front of the currently active window. You can support that easily with Visual Basic—all you have to do is to create a Window menu and set the MdiList property to True for that menu. Setting this property to True automatically adds a list of the currently open MDI windows to the end of the current menu. You can see the results in Figure 9.17—selecting a window from this list will give that window the focus.