The Window painter provides a grid to help you align controls at design time. You can use the grid options to:
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Make controls snap to a grid position when you place them or move them in a window
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Show or hide the grid when the workspace/solution displays
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Specify the height and width of the grid cells
To use the grid
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Choose Design>Options from the menu bar and select the General tab.
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Do one or more of the following:
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Select Snap to Grid to align controls with a horizontal and vertical grid when you place or move them
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Select Show Grid to display the grid in the Layout view
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Specify the width of each cell in the grid in pixels in the X text box
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Specify the height of each cell in the grid in pixels in the Y text box
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Hiding the grid
Window painting is slower when the grid is displayed, so you might want to display the grid only when necessary.
