This article shows you how to design fairly complicated forms, which can resize, using anchors, docks and panels with a dash of code.
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Planning Form Layout in VB.NET
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.
But is all this as simple as it seems? Just set a few properties, and no code?
Let's delve in and find out. We will start out by designing the user interface shown below of my new experimental application -'An expense tracker'.
Now when it came to resizing controls first I started experimenting with the anchor and dock properties, but what the hell? Controls would either overlap or move away to opposite extremes of the form, or get jumbled up. Tried all possible stunts to no avail. If you set the anchor property, the dock property would vanish and vice versa. The controls never seemed to care about each other; all that they were concerned was either to stick to an edge of the form or to maintain a constant distance from the edges of the form.
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