.Net controls changing size between computers

Question

I have a wierd problem that i need to work out how to resolve,

I have spent the last couple of weeks working on a project for work on my laptop, but when I open the

Answer 1

Ensure you can resize your panel in Visual Studio with all of the controls inside it being repositioned and resized properly. You can use anchors to achieve this, or perhaps you should use a TableLayoutPanel control instead of a regular Panel.

Answer 2

The video adapter in your workstation has a different dots-per-inch setting. The form automatically rescales itself to accommodate that.

This is going to happen as well when you ship your product and it will run on the client's machine. Changing the form's AutoScaleMode property is not a fix, that will just produce clipped text in the controls. Make sure you form design is resilient to layout changes. Dock, Anchor, TableLayoutPanel, FlowLayoutPanel, the Resize event for tough cases. And make sure the controls inherit their container's Font property (not bold in the Properties window)

Answer 3

Change your setting for AutoScaleMode.