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• How can I vertically-align autosizing buttons?

  Here is the scenario: Simply setting Button.AutoSize=true on each button will break your alignment, since the localized strings are likely to be different lengths - so you'd get this: The solution is to place the three (or however many) buttons (or...

• How Do I turn off scaling for one control?

  For user control AutoScaleMode applies to the contents of the container – that way controls within a form can be repositioned and scaled according the Form level AutoScaleMode and the user control contents are scaled according to the user control level...

• How does AutoScale affect control positioning?

  AutoScale refers in general to recalculating sizes and positions for controls without reliance on an outer layout container or engine doing the calculation. This is done for environment changes like font, DPI etc. For 1.1 the default code spit was : this...

• What are some AutoSize considerations with LayoutEngines?

  The LayoutEngine iterates through all child controls and asks each control for its preferred size via GetPreferredSize when AutoSize = true. Each layout engine is free to do what it wants with this information. Dock layout Left, Right - controls size...

• How can I create a sizable autosized form?

  If you set AutoSize = true for a form, the default setting for AutoSizeMode is GrowOnly. This means an AutoSized dialog in this mode cannot snap back down to a smaller size. Typically this is not what you want. If you want a resizable dialog that can...

• How do controls behave with GetPreferredSize?

  Control Had AutoSize in Everett AutoSize by default * Shrinks in Anchor+ Implementation details Could be Affected by... Button No No No Forwards to ButtonBase - applies a minimum size of Button.DefaultSize, unless its a FlatStyle.System, in which case...

• How can I debugging FlowLayoutPanel?

  Want to know when a control's size is set to X,Y? Put a conditional breakpoint in Control.cs SetBoundsCore. http://blogs.msdn.com/jfoscoding/archive/2005/09/05/461096.aspx

• What direction do controls grow when they AutoSize?

  Controls "grow" (expand) opposite their anchors - so a button anchored Bottom, Right would grow leftwards if its string grew, and upwards if its font grew.

• What are all the size properties for FlowLayoutPanel?

  MinimumSize : the bare minimum size a control can be set to MaximumSize : the maximum size a control can be set to PreferredSize : the size a control prefers to be - this is implemented by calling GetPreferredSize(0,0) AutoSize : Boolean specifying whether...

• What is FlowBreak?

  You can set FlowBreak on the control which is the last of that row/column. The following control should appear in the next column/row.

• How can I get the items in a flow layout panel to flow TopDown and stretch from edge to edge?

  The sample essentially sizes an item to hold the width to a certain size. private void fLP1_Layout(object sender, LayoutEventArgs e) { fLP1.Controls[0].Dock = DockStyle.None; for (int i = 1; i < fLP1.Controls.Count; i++) { fLP1.Controls[i].Dock = DockStyle...

• How do I position controls with FlowLayoutPanel?

  Currently, the implementation of Anchoring and Docking with FLP, as illustrated in the picture below, is that a control is "box stretched" only as far as the extent of the longest/tallest control in the FLP. Dock and Anchor – control how an...

• How do I add a control to a FlowLayoutPanel?

  You simply add to the controls collection, but unlike the TLP, you can't specify row and column – the controls are laid out in natural order from the collection. To move the controls, alter the position within the collection for that control.

• What is FlowLayoutPanel?

  Flowlayout panel is a much simpler control than TableLayoutPanel. It arranges items as a linear collection, supporting wrapping. It works well for menuing and list like scenarios and also supports textwrapping and some interesting alignment options. FlowLayoutPanel...