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Design view assistance

RussD
RussD ✭
in Developer Tools

I am working on an application that will add controls dynamically to a form based on user input.

Because of the lack of Design View Support, assigning the size and coordinates of the controls is incredibly tedious.

To help with this problem, I have created what a I call a "reference form" that is an almost exact duplicate of the screen area as it appears on the TPU.

I can add the form to my project and use it as sort of a scratchpad to place and size controls quickly and get the property values I need without having to go back and forth between Design View and Code View.

The attachment has both .vb and .cs forms.

reference_forms.zip

Russell Drown

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