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:
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Options
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Use
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Align
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Aligns all controls with respect to the primary control
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Make Same Size
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Resizes multiple controls on a form
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Horizontal Spacing
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Increases horizontal spacing between controls
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Vertical Spacing
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Increases vertical spacing between controls
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Center in Form
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Centers the controls on form
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Order
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Layers controls on form
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Lock Controls
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Locks all controls on form
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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.