How to Programmatically Scroll a Panel

Question

I have a System.Windows.Forms.Panel with some content.

I am trying to programmatically scroll the panel (vertically) either up or down.

I have t

Answer 1

If you have a class that derives from Panel, then call these two protected methods to scroll the panel:

// The bottom is off screen; scroll down. These coordinates must be negative or zero.
SetDisplayRectLocation(0, AutoScrollPosition.Y - item.BoundingRect.Bottom + ClientRectangle.Bottom);
AdjustFormScrollbars(true);

In my example, item.BoundingRect.Bottom is the Y coordinate of the bottom of a thumbnail, and I need to scroll the panel down so that the whole thumbnail is visible.

@King King's solution of creating a temporary Control just so that scrolling could be done seemed "heavy" to me. And @Hans Passant's suggestion of setting AutoScrollMinSize and AutoScrollPosition didn't work for me.

Leave AutoScroll to its default value of 'true'.