WinForms: Is there a concept of associating a label with a textbox?

Question

I\'m using Visual Studio 2010 with C#. Is there a concept in Windows Forms development of somehow linking a label with is text box? Something so that they move together as

Answer 1

There doesn't appear to be a built in one. You can roll your own Field class though. Below is a complete example.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;

namespace FieldClassTest
{
    class Field : FlowLayoutPanel
    {
        public Label label;
        public TextBox text_box;

        public Field(string label_text)
            : base()
        {
            AutoSize = true;

            label = new Label();
            label.Text = label_text;
            label.AutoSize = true;
            label.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left;
            label.TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleLeft;

            Controls.Add(label);

            text_box = new TextBox();

            Controls.Add(text_box);
        }
    }

    static class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

            var form = new Form();

            var panel = new FlowLayoutPanel();
            panel.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.TopDown;
            panel.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

            var first_name = new Field("First Name");
            panel.Controls.Add(first_name);

            var last_name = new Field("Last Name");
            panel.Controls.Add(last_name);

            form.Controls.Add(panel);

            Application.Run(form);
        }
    }
}

Here's what the example program looks like on my system: