Keeping a PictureBox centered inside a container

Question

I am designing a simple picture viewer with ability to do some basic image processing. At the moment I have the problem of keeping the PictureBox centered insid

Answer 1

It's pretty easy if you just set the Anchor style to none:

picBoxView = new PictureBox();
picBoxView.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.AutoSize;
picBoxView.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None;
tabImageView.Controls.Add(picBoxView);
CenterPictureBox(picBoxView, myImage);

Then just center the PictureBox initially whenever you change the image of the PictureBox:

private void CenterPictureBox(PictureBox picBox, Bitmap picImage) {
  picBox.Image = picImage;
  picBox.Location = new Point((picBox.Parent.ClientSize.Width / 2) - (picImage.Width / 2),
                              (picBox.Parent.ClientSize.Height / 2) - (picImage.Height / 2));
  picBox.Refresh();
}

Having the Anchor = None will center the PictureBox control for you whenever the parent container gets resized because it "isn't" anchored to the default Left and Top locations.