When I call this form as a child, I hit the EDIT button to get into edit mode. After I change the value of a textbox and tab to the next control, I am expecting the SAVE and UNDO buttons to become enabled. That does not happen. However, when I close the form, it does prompt me to save changes, so it recognizes the changed data. Please let me know why the SAVE and UNDO buttons are not available in this scenario.



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Thanks for your help,

Ed Summers

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You are never going to be able to totally control the enabled state of the MaintenanceFormToolstrip this way. It is an encapsulated control and follows the logic as mentioned in the previous post.  You have two options. 

Option 1
Hide the Delete button the MaintenanceFormToolstrip by setting the IncludeDeleteButton property to False.  You can then add another button to the end of the toolstrip (or create another toolstrip) that has the delete logic you require.

Option 2
Your second option is to just create your own maintenance form toolstrip.  It is not a difficult task since none of the logic is written in the MaintenanceFormToolstrip anyway.  You will just need to handle the EditStateChanged, Navigated, etc. events and then use the Add(), Edit(), Save(), Undo(), etc methods on the form.