Automatic resizing of the Windows Forms controls

Question

I\'m using VS2008\'s designer for doing this.

For example if I\'ve a windows form of size say 500x500 and I added a DataGridView to it (490x490).

when I run

Answer 1

You can ether set the Dock-Property of your DataGridView instance to DockStyle.Fill or use the Anchor-Property and set the anchors to:

dataGridView.Anchor = 
    AnchorStyles.Bottom | 
    AnchorStyles.Right | 
    AnchorStyles.Top | 
    AnchorStyles.Left;

The first method will make your DataGridView to fill your whole client area. The second method will keep the ratio and only resize the control if the container resizes.