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Goodbye Frozen Forms
Visual Studio 2005 includes design time authoring tools that make it easier for developers to build Windows Forms which allow content to flow freely as the Form resizes. They have introduced 2 new layout panels that "defrost" Forms. The new layout panels TableLayoutPanel and FlowLayoutPanel can be used to mimic the layout behavior of Web applications. Formerly, controls in Windows Forms were laid out with absolute positioning, which made it difficult to respond to resize events. This was in sharp contrast to Web applications, which support flexible positioning through a variety of table or CSS properties. This may be old news for some and perhaps of all the new features and improvements offered by windows 2.0 considered NO BIG DEAL but, from the perspective of a UI designer this is awesome. I tested it out and it really works checkout this tutorial . Use it in your next project. Now if only Microsoft would improve the HTML generated by their web controls packaged in Visual Studio by building...
Posted: Mar 11 2007, 02:10 PM by Wahne | with 1 comment(s)
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