Winforms Designer - Adding Controls Beyond my Screen Edges

[David_41]

I have a form that I need to add a lot of controls too. I am using a split container with panel 1 on the left and panel 2 on the right. Panel 1 will use a vertical scroll bar to allow the user to scroll up and down. I am running into a problem with the Visual Studio Winforms Designer GUI. I am dragging the bottom edge of my form down as far as I can so that I can add more controls under existing controls and the screen jumps back up making it impossible to add more controls. Is there anything I can do to make this easier for me? Maybe there is a setting or something? Thanks. Edit: I figured it out. All I had to do was set the AutoScroll property of the form to TRUE. Once I did that, the form scrollbars showed up in my designer and now I can scroll all over the form to layout my controls.

[Lost User]

Check all the properties of your Form, particularly to see if AutoSize is true or false.

[David_41]

Thank you. I did figure it out and edited my original post with the solution. I just needed to set my forms AutoScroll property to TRUE and that gave me scroll bars to use to navigate around my form.

[K SIS]

If number of controls are more you can use TabControl to group related sections.