I have noticed that whenever I run my programme, the form and its controls remain the size as was set at design time even when I click the Maximize button leaving empty spaces all over.

How do I get the form and its controls to fill the entire window proportionately and neatly; at positions similar to those I see at design time?

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Sylva,

If you use controls like Panel, TabControl, RichTextBox etc and you want to keep these control show in the whole form, you can set the Dock property to Fill.

The Dock property is also important, it is mostly used by container kind of controls. You can dock your panel to the top/bottom/left/right or fill of the form.

Most Winform controls' Dock property is None and Anchor property is "Top, Left". You can change it to meet your need.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Every control has a property called "Anchor". It has 4 lines representing 4 different directions i.e. top, bottom, right and left. You need to play around with this and this is the easies way that you can fill your entire form or window according to the screen resolution.

Regards

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Midnight Programmer

Hi Sylva,

If you use controls like Panel, TabControl, RichTextBox etc and you want to keep these control show in the whole form, you can set the Dock property to Fill.

The Dock property is also important, it is mostly used by container kind of controls. You can dock your panel to the top/bottom/left/right or fill of the form.

Most Winform controls' Dock property is None and Anchor property is "Top, Left". You can change it to meet your need.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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Prashant and Kira's comments are exactly what you need, if you need to cover the empty spaces on your form (after you maximize, or minimize).
However, if you need to make it start-up as maximized already, set the property WindowState on the designer to Maximized.

Or you can do it in run time, by doing this:

WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;

Hope this helps.

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Rafael Medeiros