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I am working on a project in Visual Studio 2013, and recently I have found that the controls on any form simply refuses to move when I use the mouse to drag and drop. Instead it lets me drag, then as soon as I move the cursor it snaps back into place. Then when I let go, it selects the control the cursor is hovering over.

The keyboard keys work fine, but I don't see why the program has simply changed the rules on me from a convenient system to an annoying and tedious one.

The controls are not locked and the problem effects every form. If it helps, I use Citrix as a thin client on my computer to access school programs.

  • Check the VS snapping settings. Could just be as you say - Visual Studio is 'snapping' the controls into place. –  Oct 09 '13 at 09:53
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    I hate to be 'that guy' but are you sure you're not debugging? – JMK Oct 09 '13 at 10:37
  • This started happening to me today also. @DeeMac, it's not the same behavior as snapping in place, and changing the snapping settings has no effect. – Johnie Karr Apr 18 '14 at 12:59
  • I am running into this problem as well. I can't even change the names of items. And no I am not debugging. – JeremyK Jan 22 '15 at 14:36
  • While it sounds like there may be some subtle differences between our problems, I was able to resolve a similar issue with Visual Studio. Take a look at my answer: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22925065](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22925065). – Brett Wolfington Jun 22 '15 at 11:26
  • Possible duplicate of [Can't Move Controls With Mouse on Windows Form Designer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22925065/cant-move-controls-with-mouse-on-windows-form-designer) –  Nov 02 '15 at 19:43
  • Maybe duplicate but that question does not have an answer – KansaiRobot Sep 11 '18 at 02:22

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Hi can you please check the CSS styles

setting:Tools--> Options-->HTML Designer-->CSS styling--> then check the "Change position to absolute for controls added using toolbox, paste or drag and drop" check Box.

It should work

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