Anchoring
Lets you hook a control to one of the form’s corners at a specific distance
Controls are anchored to top and left corner by default
When anchored, controls stay at a fixed distance from side they are bound to
Docking
Allows your control to bind to the edge of a form
You cannot dock and anchor same control
Click center of dock property gives it a fill value and it fills entire container
Methods
Adding a form at runtime
Dim myForm as form2
myForm=new form2()
myForm.Show()
Open/Close Form
Show() method opens a form
Close() method closes a form
When you create a form, it will live until you call the close() method or end your application
Events
- Activate
- Deactivate
- Load
- Fires just before the load loads
- Formclosing
- Fires before the form closes
- Formclosed
- Fires after the form closes
When using formclosing or formclosed you get back an eventargs that has a closereason property with one of these values
- ApplicationExitCall
- Formownerclosing
- Midformclosing
- Taskmanagerclosing
- Userclosing
- windowsshutdown
Controlscollection
Each form and container control has a controls collection
Contains list of all controls in that container
To add control to container at runtime:
Dim mybutton as new button
Mybutton.location=new point(50,50)
Mybutton.text=”Click me”
Panel1.controls.add(mybutton)
My.controls.add(mybutton)