Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer

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LESSON 3 Making Controls arrange theMselves

TRY IT

In this Try It, you have a chance to practice using the Anchor and Dock properties. You build the

application shown in Figure 3-8.

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When the form resizes, the TextBoxes and LinkLabel stretch horizontally.

When the form resizes, the

PictureBox also stretches vertically. Notice in Figure 3-8 that the cover

image is rather tall and thin. When the

PictureBox grows taller, it can display a larger version of

the cover image. The control displays the image as large as possible without distorting it.

Note that the program you build won’t actually do anything except sit there looking pretty and

resizing controls when the form resizes. The techniques you need to make it respond to list selections

are covered in later lessons.

You can download the code and resources for this Try It from the book’s web

page at

www.wrox.com or www.CSharpHelper.com/24hour.html. You can find

them in the Lesson03 folder in the download.

Lesson Requirements

In this lesson, you:

Create the program’s three main controls: a

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MenuStrip, a Panel, and a StatusStrip. Use

Dock properties to make these three controls stay in their proper positions.

Add controls to the

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Panel.

Use the

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Anchor property to make the ListBox stretch vertically when the form resizes.

Use

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Anchor properties to make the TextBoxes and LinkLabel stretch horizontally when the

form resizes. ...