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Is the size of a Form in Visual Studio designer limited to screen resolution?

Asked 2011-07-11T13:51:03.130
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Why is it, that in the Visual Studio WinForms designer I cannot increase the size of my Form above the resolution of the screen I am currently working on? I think it should somehow be possible to develop an application aimed at higher resolutions on a lower res system. The fact that this would clip the Form during debugging should not be an issue. Is there perhaps some setting in Visual Studio for this, which I cannot seem to find?

EDIT: My main issue is that I need to be able to design a (for example) 1440x900 sized form on a laptop with a (for example) 1360x768 screen.

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I have found a work around for this issue. In my case I was needing a design time solution.

I found that using a multi display system with the desktop extended to each display, this effectively tells the system your max display is the combination of displays.

This is a work around and is a pain. Especialy for me while I was in the field with just a laptop.

Scaling at runtime is ok if you're targeting multiple systems. But if its just a single target system (one size display), then it is an unneeded overhead in design coding and runtime.

Microsoft should have realized this was a bad idea or at least given a choice to override this "design feature".

answered 2012-07-27T16:53:38.543

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