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Control Layout and Positioning

When a few controls are on a form, the Windows Forms Designer is able to help automate some of the more common layout tasks, such as aligning a group of controls vertically to one another. We again refer you to Chapter 6 to see how you can leverage these productivity tools. But these layout functions, although nice from a design perspective, do nothing for you at runtime.

As previously noted, a control’s runtime behavior within its parent form is an important area that needs attention if you are to implement your form according to your design intent. That is, you not only want controls to look a certain way, but also want them to act a certain way when the form is resized.

The simplest way to underscore the issue ...