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Planning Form Layout in VB.NET - Introduction
Introduction
This article shows you how to design fairly complicated forms, which can resize,
using anchors, docks and panels with a dash of code.
Most of you would have heard of, and even used the new anchoring and docking
properties available to the windows form controls in VB.NET. They enable controls
to resize or reposition themselves as the form resizes, without writing code.
I was definitely excited about these new features. Think of the huge amount
of time saved writing stupid, nonproductive resizing code just to make the forms
look the same.
Benny Mathew is the Founder, CEO of Seamless Integration Solutions Pvt. Ltd. He has 10+ years of formal experience in the IT industry and has provided services to many of the well known multi-national companies. He was also an MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) for two consecutive years. Prior to starting Seamless Integration Solutions, he was with Two Connect Inc. (Miami, FL), as a Solutions Architect. His work experience also includes working for IBM Global Services (India), Hewlett Packard (India Software Operations), Thomson Financials (Bangalore), and Delphi Software & IT Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore).
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Comments
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Posted by vkhaitan on 01 Sep 2008
It is difficult to design fairly complicated forms by simply using anchors and docks. .Net provides two layout manager Flow layout panel and Table Layout Panel. However you need to use a good layout m... -
Posted by danfizesan on 28 Oct 2003
I would use 4 panels in the following way:
1) one up (this is the extra panel that is not in your example). Set the Dock property to this one to Top and set the Height to whatever you want.
2) The ... -
Posted by Skywolf on 15 Dec 2002
good work - and helpful! -
Posted by sarath on 07 Mar 2002
Good one ! Keep it up ... -
Posted by naveen_pb on 07 Mar 2002
This is very [b]very very nice[/b]
[6]keep it up[/6]
[cyan]good work[/cyan]
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