Format Menu in VB .NET
In this article, I will explain you about Format Menu in Visual Basic .NET.
In this article, I will
explain you about Format Menu in Visual Basic .NET.
In Visual Basic .NET
when we want to align, layer or lock the controls on a form then we use theFormat Menu.
To arrange controls on the form there are many options which are provided by the
Format Menu.
When we use Format Menu
to arrange controls on the form, we have to select the controls in such a way
that the selected control is the primary control we use primary control as the
alignment reference for other controls. The table below shows you available
options in Format Menu:
|
Options |
Use |
|
Align |
Aligns all
controls with respect to the primary control |
|
Make Same Size |
Resizes
multiple controls on a form |
|
Horizontal Spacing |
Increases
horizontal spacing between controls |
|
Vertical Spacing |
Increases
vertical spacing between controls |
|
Center in Form |
Centers the
controls on form |
|
Order |
Layers
controls on form |
|
Lock Controls |
Locks all
controls on form |
Aligning multiple controls on a Form
In Visual Basic .NET we
can align multiple controls on a form. Let's see an example. Open a new
project and drag some controls
on the Form1 from
the toolbox. Select the controls you want to align and make sure that the last
control you selected is the primary control to which all other controls align.
As you see in the image that the Button control is with dark handles it is the
primary control.
Now after selecting the option Lefts under Align from
the Format Menu you can see all the controls are left-aligned. As shown in the
image below:
Make Same Size
To make controls of
same size we can use the Make
Same Size option under Format
Menu. It provides four options Width, Height, Both and Size
to Grid and by these options we
can make all the controls same in size. As shown in the image below:
Locking Controls
When you want that all
the controls on a form cannot be moved accidentally then we can useLock
Controls option to lock all
selected controls. A shown in the image below:
Summary
I hope this article
help you to understand about Format Menu in Visual Basic .NET.