Making WinForms Controls Responsive

In WinForms, you can achieve a control’s adaptive effect by setting the control’s Anchor and Dock properties.

1. Anchor Property: The Anchor property is used to determine how a control is positioned within its container. By setting a control’s Anchor property to Top, Bottom, Left, or Right, the control will adjust its position as the window size changes. For example, if a control’s Anchor property is set to Top and Left, the control will be fixed in the top left corner of the window and will move towards the bottom right as the window size changes.
2. The Dock property is used to determine how a control is anchored within its container. By setting a control’s Dock property to Top, Bottom, Left, Right, or Fill, the control can occupy the corresponding position within the container. For example, if a control’s Dock property is set to Fill, the control will fill the entire container and automatically stretch as the window is resized.

By properly setting the Anchor and Dock properties of controls, you can achieve the effect of controls automatically adapting to the window. Additionally, you can manually adjust the position and size of controls in the Resize event of the window to ensure that the controls always maintain the effect of adapting to the window size.