How the anchor property of datagridview be fruitful ?

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sir by your words i used 'left,top,right,bottom' attribute of Anchor property in datagridview. but during runtime the dgv control becomes extremely large insufficient to fit in a screen how i be able to view all the data. also there shows no scroll bars

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as sir has told i used Anchor property of dgv control and scroll property to both and dock to none but the dgv exceeds the size of the form and there are no scroll bars to be seen
what next to do ?

Posted 17-Feb-21 2:23am

Member 12712527

Updated 17-Feb-21 2:48am

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Richard MacCutchan 17-Feb-21 8:46am

You can only show the amount of data that will fit in the form, or on the screen. If there is too much to show then you need to redesign your application.

Member 12712527 18-Feb-21 0:02am

Yes sir but what about the scroll bars

Richard MacCutchan 18-Feb-21 3:23am

What about them?

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RickZeeland · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-17T02:48:00

Solution 1

You probably have some other properties that conflict with the Anchor property.
Try making a fresh start with a new DataGridView, don't touch any of the other properties, only:
set Anchor to Top, Bottom, Left, Right
set Scrollbars to Both
Also don't use other containers, just drop the new DataGridView on the form.

If for some reason you can not get it working then this trick might do it:
c# - Add thousands of columns into datagridview - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 17-Feb-21 2:48am

RickZeeland

Updated 17-Feb-21 3:16am

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Member 12712527 18-Feb-21 2:17am

thanks sir done it of-course by your example of the code that you provided...

RickZeeland 18-Feb-21 2:35am

Congrats, then you can mark this as solved.
I'm still curious why you could not get the Anchoring working, I think this is an important concept that you should master (in the future)