How to: Align a Control to the Edges of Forms at Design Time

You can make your control align to the edge of your forms by setting the value of the Dock property. This property designates where your control resides in the form. The Dock property can be set to the following values:

Setting	Effect on your control
Bottom	Docks to the bottom of the form.
Fill	Fills all remaining space in the form.
Left	Docks to the left side of the form.
None	Does not dock anywhere, and it appears at the location specified by its Location.
Right	Docks to the right side of the form.
Top	Docks to the top of the form.

These values can also be set in code. For more information, see How to: Align a Control to the Edges of Forms.

Set the Dock property for your control at design time

1. In the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio, select your control.

2. In the Properties window, click the drop-down box next to the Dock property.

   A graphical interface representing the six possible Dock settings is displayed.

3. Choose the appropriate setting.

4. Your control will now dock in the manner specified by the setting.

See also

• Control.Dock
• Control.Anchor
• How to: Align a Control to the Edges of Forms
• Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using Snaplines
• How to: Anchor Controls on Windows Forms
• How to: Anchor and Dock Child Controls in a TableLayoutPanel Control
• How to: Anchor and Dock Child Controls in a FlowLayoutPanel Control
• Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using a TableLayoutPanel
• Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using a FlowLayoutPanel
• Developing Windows Forms Controls at Design Time