Embedded form and Anchor property

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The following situation:
Panel control with Dock=Fill, inside a panel an embedded form with controls
in it.
The code embedding the form into the panel is this:
pnl.Controls.Add(form1);
Everything is working perfect, except the Anchor property of controls on the
embedded form is not working. The form has a grid that should be anchored to
all four sides, however, because the form is embedded into the panel, this
whole design is not working.
Am I missing anything? Any workaround?
Thank you in advance.
Cezar
 
Yes, I figured it out:
I need to call:
form.Anchor = ((AnchorStyles)((AnchorStyles.Bottom | AnchorStyles.Left |
AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Right)));

The trouble was that the Anchor property was not available to the form in
the design time, and this is why I didn't know how to accomplish this.
However, at run time the property is perfectly available, so it's fine now..
 
Cezar said:
Panel control with Dock=Fill, inside a panel an embedded form with
controls
in it.
The code embedding the form into the panel is this:
pnl.Controls.Add(form1);
Everything is working perfect, except the Anchor property of controls on
the
embedded form is not working. The form has a grid that should be anchored
to
all four sides, however, because the form is embedded into the panel, this
whole design is not working.
Click to expand...

Depending on the situation using a usercontrol instead of the embedded form
might be more appropriate.
 
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