c# - visual studio 2005 designer moves controls and resizes Form

Question

When i open a form in visual studio 2005 (c#) the designer automaticaly resize the form and move/resize controls without touching the designer at all. The source file is changed and when i close the designer i'm asked to save the *.cs file. I tried to look into visual studio options without any success. any ideas? visual studio setup or something? thanks, Tal

Answer 1

I have been working on this problem for most of today and found some interesting things: The main source of the problem seems to be relying on anchoring. If I use docking to position my controls, instead of anchoring, my problems seem to go away. I found a couple of blog posts from 2003(!), which detail how you might use docking instead of anchoring, and explain how anchoring can break the Windows Forms designer. It seems like this problem might be over 7 years old!

Here are the posts:

• http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2003/09/24/28984.aspx
• http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2003/10/17/32407.aspx
• http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2003/10/23/33181.aspx