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Gridlines in C# Form Designer

Okay, I need some community help. I am tweaking my main game form in the Windows form designer screen. I am moving components, like PictureBoxes around, but I don't have the fine detail. There is usually a setting for the gridlines or snap in most form designer or graphic tools; in other words, when you are dragging screen elements, how far do they move each time. I can't find this in C#.Net Express. Any ideas.

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posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 7:36 AM

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# re: Gridlines in C# Form Designer 5/26/2006 9:11 AM George

In VB Express, I go to Tools -> Options. From there expand the Windows Forms Designer node and select General. Within Layout Settings you set SnapToGrid = True and ShowGrid = True and that should help.

Probably some other options as well that you might be interested in playing with, but I think the ShowGrid setting was what you were looking for.

# re: Gridlines in C# Form Designer 5/26/2006 9:16 AM Scott Miller

Oh, there is a checkbox down at the bottom of the Tools->Options form to Show All Settings.

# re: Gridlines in C# Form Designer 1/4/2008 2:57 AM Avinash kr Singh

Give me brief example of Form in .NET(C#).

# re: Gridlines in C# Form Designer 7/2/2009 9:28 AM jisha

please consider this

# re: Gridlines in C# Form Designer 3/1/2010 3:33 AM ScarletPearl

I'm having a problem with desinger controls in C#. I can't show controls' gridlines in forms. When I drag a control in a form (for example textbox or tablayout panel, i can't see the borders and if i lost focus on controls, i can't even see them. What's the problem? Please, help me