Writing for different screen resolutions

Hello All, :wave:

I hope 2012 is thus far proving to be a good one for you.

I'm writing a piece of software at the moment which will require a form be full screen at all times. However, I am slightly plagued by the fact that my users will have varying screen resolutions.

This makes placing controls etc very difficult. Does anyone have any good techniques / tips to ensure that control layout looks consistent despite the screen resolution when an application is full screen.

I'd like to try to avoid having to programmatically re-size and move controls based on screen res as this is a pain in the royal backside.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jord :afrog:

Follow the CodeBank link in my signature and check out my thread on using the Dock & Anchor properties. This assumes using Windows Forms. WPF has more sophisticated mechanisms for maintaining layout.

Thanks for that outrageously sexual piece of advice.