snaplines

Move the Button controls around to see how the snaplines cross container boundaries.

Controls around to see how the snaplines cross container boundaries.

Note the snaplines that appear as the Button control approaches the bottom and right borders of the form.

Observe the snaplines that appear as the Button control approaches the bottom and right borders of the GroupBox control.

Note that no snaplines appear and the control does not snap to any potential alignment positions.

Snaplines offer an intuitive means of aligning controls on your form.

Property establishes categories of importance for the snaplines associated with a control.

Snaplines help you to align your controls to form and container margins in a consistent manner.

Controls that are children of a container control also support snaplines.

These snaplines display the recommended distance between the borders of the control and the form.

Snaplines help you align controls as you resize them. To resize a control using snaplines.

Note how the snaplines appear in various orientations to indicate alignment.

For more information, see Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using Snaplines.

Snaplines, which are aligned along the edges of the control.

You can use snaplines to align grouped controls as well as controls within a GroupBox control.

Note the snaplines that appear to suggest aligned positions for the Button control.

The control is created at the position indicated by the snaplines.

Snaplines originate from controls and their container.

You can now use snaplines to align and arrange controls on your form.

Class gives you an implementation to extend your custom controls with snaplines.

The snaplines appear at a greater distance from the borders of the GroupBox control.

Drop the control at the location indicated by the snaplines.

Select the SnapLines layout mode in the Windows Forms Designer Options dialog box.

Control and observe where the snaplines appear.

Snaplines are a convenient way to align and position controls on a design surface.

During any given layout decision point, only the snaplines that are active and have the highest priority are displayed.

Note the positions the control occupies and the snaplines that accompany them.

Snaplines give you an accurate and intuitive way to align controls on your form.

Defines custom categories of snaplines.

Control and note where the snaplines appear.

Snaplines are disabled within layout panels.

Snaplines help you align controls when you drag them from the Toolbox onto your form.

Snaplines help you align controls when you first place them on a form.

For more information on snaplines, see Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using Snaplines.

The ControlDesigner class stores snaplines for its corresponding control type in the SnapLines property.

Property is used to define custom categories of snaplines.

Note that snaplines appear again.

Snaplines help you align controls when you are arranging them using the keyboard's arrow keys.

In addition, you can select between SnapToGrid and SnapLines layout modes.

The priority category that is equivalent to the highest priority of all the current snaplines.

This base class handling of snaplines will suffice for the majority of controls, as it defines the

You can use snaplines to align grouped controls as well as controls within a

Walkthrough: Arranging Controls on Windows Forms Using Snaplines

Spacing and Aligning Controls Using Snaplines

Class stores snaplines for its corresponding control type in the

Snaplines on Windows Forms for arranging controls

To use snaplines with keyboard navigation

Using Snaplines When Dragging a Control from the Toolbox

To use snaplines when dragging a control from the Toolbox

To arrange controls using snaplines

To use snaplines to place a control by outlining its size

To align controls using snaplines

How to: Arrange Controls with Snaplines and the Grid in Windows Forms