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NeonD
NeonD

Reputation: 177

How do I stop Visual Studio from enlarging controls every time I open a windows form?

I have one windows form file that each time I open it in Visual Studio it increases the size of the controls within the designer file. If I save the form, close it in the editor, and open it again, then the controls are all a little larger than before. I can see that the size properties on the controls are all increasing within the designer file.

Can anyone explain to me how to fix this behavior?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4362

Answers (3)

Skip
Skip

Reputation: 66

I've had problems with visual studio when running on windows 8 with an HD res laptop vs a regular 1280 x 800 one

The windows default on a fresh install for the HD laptop was to increase font size in windows programs by 25%

Look under Screen Resolution -> Make text or other items larger or smaller -> Select 'Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays' to see the setting. 125% in my case.

Visual studio seems to set the form or controls AutoScaleMode setting based on the setting above.

In the form designer: On low res laptop this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);

Hi res this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(7F, 16F);

Upvotes: 4

roken
roken

Reputation: 4014

To elaborate on my comment, when the designer loads/saves your form, it is going to call the getters/setters on the public properties of your Form and the Form's controls.

This means that if you've overridden a property of the form, and accessing/setting said property has a side effect of resizing a control, that size adjustment will be reflected in the designer. Then when you save the form, that new size is persisted to the designer-generated code. Each time you reopen the form, this adjustment would occur.

This would also apply to event handlers for properties that are being set within the designer-generated code.

Upvotes: 2

Christophe Geers
Christophe Geers

Reputation: 8962

Just lock your controls so that you can't accidentally move or resize them.

Just open the form designer, right click and from the context menu choose "Lock Controls".

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As to why Visual Studio is resizing them automatically, I can only guess.

Upvotes: 0

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