Floating panel?

[sjn78]

I am playing around with user controls and trying to replicate the toolbox menu as you have in the IDE.

 

How can I achieve something like this so as its floating above any other forms that may be present (in an mdi environment)

 

I basically have a usercontrol and when the mouse hover event fires, it resizes it and when it leaves, shrinks it back. Is this the right approach or do I need to draw it manaully using some other settings or overrides.

 

Thanks

[sjn78]

Got it going now. I was docking the control hence, making it part of the mdiparent. So I just set its co-ords to the upper left position of where I wanted it and now it goes fine.