WinForms: Making a set of controls scale vertically.
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I have a Windows Form that displays several DataGridViews in the following layout:
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Unfortunately, when the user resizes the form to be taller, the form ends up looking like this:
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Instead of this:
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To reproduce this, anchor the Top-Left DataGridView to Top-Left, the Center-Left DataGridView to Left, and the Bottom-Left DataGridView to Bottom-Left, and the big DataGridView to all 4.
What can I do to get the behavior I want?
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