Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Configuring Your Form for Resizing

Every time I built a resizable form in Visual Basic 6.0 (which includes every form I built except for the simplest of dialog boxes), I had to write code into the form's Resize event.

I had to decide how I wanted each control to adjust to the new size of the form, what size was too small for my interface to be usable, and I had to remember to check if the form had been minimized before trying to do any resizing. This code was not particularly hard to write, and after 50 or 60 forms I could do it without much thought, but it still took time and effort for every form I created. In Windows forms, a variety of features have come together to allow you to configure your controls for auto-resizing without having to ...