Splitter control (winforms)

Question

I want the user to adjust the splitter... I have two sides in the winform: one shows the people and the other shows the details about them. I want the user to be able to move the spliter, to adjust how much he wants of the each side of the form to be seen.

How do i achieve that?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '11 at 10:16

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Use the SplitContainer class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.splitcontainer.aspx

Move your "People" List in the left splitcontainer panel and the detail view into the right panel. Be careful when Cut & Pasting your controls. VS2008 looses all event handlers when moving control to the clipboard. (Don't know about VS2010).

Split containers allow you to set a fixed panel - a panel that does not auto-resize when the view bounds change. This is probably your "People" list.

answered Apr 23 '11 at 10:16

Thomas Zoechling

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So are you saying, the user cant move the splitter to adjust the size of the controls? – Dmitry Makovetskiyd Apr 23 '11 at 10:24
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Just drag the controls, rather than cut and pasting them. – Cody Gray - on strike Apr 23 '11 at 11:01

Splitter control (winforms)

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