Panel.Dock Fill ignoring other Panel.Dock setting

Question

If you create a panel on a form and set it to Dock=Top and drop another panel and set its Dock=Fill, it may fill the entire form, ignoring the first panel. Changing the tab

Answer 1

I know this is an old post but I discovered something useful. To adjust sibling control order programatically for dynamically created control(s), you can do something like:

parentForm.Controls.SetChildIndex (myPanel, 0) 

In my case, I did this to move a Dock/Fill panel to be the first control in my form so that it would not overlap with another docked control set to Dock/Top (a menu strip).