Problem with position of controls on Windows form

Kobus Botha

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Community to develop a Windows application..

I have two buttons at the bottom, right of the form and their anchors are set to Bottom, Right.

However when I save the solution and close Visual Studio and reopen the solution the buttons have moved up on the form. Every time I open the solution the buttons have moved up (Please see the picture). I have even tried locking the controls on the form.

Can anyone assist me with this?

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Kobus Botha10y ago
I can reproduce the problem as follows:
I have created a test Windows application and the following is what I have done:
- In Visual Studio Community 2015 I create a new Windows Forms Application project.
- I change the size of Form1 to (400; 200).
- I set the MaximumSize of Form1 to (400; 200).
- I set the MinimumSize of Form1 to (400; 200).
- I add a Button at (280; 110).
- I anchor the Button at (Bottom, Right)
- I set the ControlBox property of Form1 to false.
- I save and close the project.
When I open the project again, the button has moved up. Location f the Button is now (280; 81).
If I save and close the project with the new location of the button and open the project again, the Button has again moved up and new location is (280; 52).
This was all just done in the Editor and I have not added any code of my own.
Regards.
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Kobus Botha10y ago
I tried the TableLayoutPanel now, but it gives the same problem.
I have added the TableLayoutPanel and set its anchors to all four sides. However when I close and open the solution the bottom of the panel has moved up. See picture.
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Vinay Singh10y ago
Hi
UseTableLayout In your form. Just take theTableLayout control on your form and add the control in the table layout and then apply anchor property.
have a look of the link
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/842418/Designing-the-Layout-of-Windows-Forms-using-a
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/tablelayoutpanel-in-C-Sharp/
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Kobus Botha10y ago
On further investigation it happens when I set a Minimum Size for the form. I created a new application and left everything at the default settings then it seems fine. The moment I set a Minimum size for the form the button position move up every time I close and open the solution in Visual Studio.
Why would that be?
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Kobus Botha10y ago
Just to clarify. I am using anchor settings for the buttons and it is set to (Bottom, Right) for both buttons.
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Asad Ali10y ago
Try setting the Anchor property on the buttons
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