portable windows form [duplicate]

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WinForms Different DPI Layouts

I have made an application which uses high number of pictureboxes in a windows form. I have successfully completed the project. But my problem started when i deployed the application onto my friends laptop which has a smaller display screen. Not all pictureboxes and controls were visible. i.e. some controls went out-of form and were inaccessable.

Actually I had developed the application on my desktop 开发者_如何学运维which has larger display screen. How do I make the form portable so that inspite of display screen variation, the controls are correctly displayed?

I know it is a simple problem of Normalized co-ordinates...But I dont want to sit down and plan the co-ordinates (like : Screen 1unit length and 1 unit breadth. So 1st conrtol at 0.25,0.3 position) coz it will waste my time as the application has vast pictureboxes and controls.

Isnt there a tool in Visual studio which will automatically use normalized co-ordinates and maintain it in the deploy file so that it is portable?????

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There is a tool. Its called WPF. It has device independant graphics which renders the same, regardless of the size.

Other then that, you will have to manually normalize it yourself

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use TableLayoutPanel and position your controls within the cells of the table, which will care on resizing

use Anchor/Docking property of controls for correct relative alignment.

Regards.

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Have you looked at using a FlowLayoutPanel with the AutoSize property enabled? You can build it so its dynamically sized at runtime.