Right-aligned labels in WinForms

Question

The most obvious way to right-align a Label in WinForms doesn\'t work: setting anchor to Top/Bottom Right and TextAlign to TopRight. If the text changes the lab

Answer 1

• dynamically created label's default autosize is false.
• if label's autosize is false. it contains extra empty space.
• that tricks you to think its doesnt right align properly. to diagnose it, set the label's backColour to lightgreen

 int rowIndex=1;

 var lbx = new Label();
 lbx.AutoSize = true;          // default is false.
 lbx.BackColor = Color.Green;  // to see if it's aligning or not
 lbx.Text = "Iam  Autosize=true";
 lbx.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right;
 tlPanel.Controls.Add(lbx, 0, rowIndex);

 var dtp = new DateTimePicker();
 dtp.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left;
 tlPanel.Controls.Add(dtp, 1, rowIndex);


  //--- row 2  autosize false
 rowIndex=2;
  var lbx2 = new Label();
 lbx2.AutoSize = false;          // default is false.
 lbx2.BackColor = Color.Green;  // to see if it's aligning or not
 lbx2.Text = "AutoSz=false";
 lbx2.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Right;
 tlPanel.Controls.Add(lbx2, 0, rowIndex);

 var dtp = new DateTimePicker();
 dtp.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Left;
 tlPanel.Controls.Add(dtp, 1, rowIndex);