MDI in .NET

[VectraMan]

That's SDI: each window has a single document, appearing to be a separate instance of the application.

Oh no it isn't.

[NickFitz]

Oh no it isn't.

Microsoft beg to differ:

An MDI application has a window within which multiple MDI child windows, which are frame windows themselves, can be opened, each containing a separate document.

[voodooflux]

An MDI application has a window within which multiple MDI child windows, which are frame windows themselves, can be opened, each containing a separate document.

I think when VectraMan said "one completely independent document per window" the window he was referring to was the child window from that statement above.

[VectraMan]

An MDI application has a window within which multiple MDI child windows, which are frame windows themselves, can be opened, each containing a separate document.

And I said:

MDI implies one completely independent document per window

I didn't say application windows.

[NickFitz]

And I said:

MDI implies one completely independent document per window.

I didn't say application windows.

But MDI means multiple completely independent documents per window, not one.

[VectraMan]

But MDI means multiple completely independent documents per window, not one.

Multiple documents per application window, but one independent document per child window, which is what I said (or at least what I meant).