Anchor & Dock For Automatic Resizing

[kayleigh]

Hi john. I stumbled upon this while searching the forums. Would you say it's out side the scope of this thread to ask about anchoring with inside a user control? To make it clearer if i had a mainform that housed a user control. When mainform re-sized it re-sized the user control and controls? The user control does not resize when Mainform does.

Should i make my own thread

[jmcilhinney]

Hi john. I stumbled upon this while searching the forums. Would you say it's out side the scope of this thread to ask about anchoring with inside a user control? To make it clearer if i had a mainform that housed a user control. When mainform re-sized it re-sized the user control and controls? The user control does not resize when Mainform does.

Should i make my own thread

Anchoring & docking is relative to a control's immediate parent. Any child controls in a UserControl will resize based on the UserControl and a UserControl on a form will resize based on the form. A UserControl is just like any other control. If you have set the Anchor and/or Dock properties of a UserControl on your form and it doesn't resize with the form then something is broken in your project or your system because a UserControl is a control and it behaves like any other control.