I am creating a form using VB.Net 2005. The page is a very large page and I need to be able to let the user "scroll" down the page during runtime in order to see all the contents of the page. Can anyone help me do this? I looked at all the form's property and can't get anything to work. Thanks in advance.
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I'm sorry for being such a airhead, but I do have AutoScroll set to True but nothing changed. I'm in design mode and can't make to form bigger than 1292 vertically. Am I doing something wrong in design mode?
The autoscroll works if controls take more space than the size of form. To see it set it True and place a control at bottom end of form, then make form size smaller and you see scrollbars in form (also in Designer). I don't think you can design form larger than your current desktop resolution. If you need to make form larger than your screen view that's a definite sign you should redesign, perhaps divide to more forms or use Tabcontrol or other layout.
I did what you suggested and it did not work. I'm in design mode and placed a control (groupbox) that extends to the bottom of the page. I shorten the form and the scroll bar does show in "design mode" but does not show in "runtime". Any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
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The point of the Autoscroll is to enable scrolling to parts of form that it otherwise not visible, it's not a resolution issue, it's a plain calculation of how much space the controls take and how much there is available for current size of form. If you at runtime resize a form to a smaller size than it was designed a control that doesn't autosize with it will stay and the form detects that there is something outside its client size and therefore must show the scrollbars. Resizing a window at runtime is done by placing the mouse pointer to the window edge and dragging it.
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