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Dock.Fill should be used more often

by Miha Markič 30. August 2007 21:28

Look at the picture below.

These are the Team System tests results I run today. Why the heck is more than half of the window empty (huge red rounded rectangle) ? Instead, the grid could perfectly fill the empty space and thus reducing the stress on my mouse wheel.

I have no idea why there is an empty space but [MS] developers are often keeping dialogs fixed and small (how much time it took to get resizable dialogs, such as Add References... one) and it seems the same happened to this unfortunate form (if you have a screen bigger than 15" that is). If you look at the bright side, at least grid's horizontal expansion is there.

Is this going to change in Visual Studio 2008? Judging from beta 2 - the testing UI has been redone to some extent and this grid doesn't appear anymore at all.

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Miha Markic

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Miha currently works as a free lance consultant and software developer specialized in .net area.
He graduated in Computer and information science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has accumulated experience in various programming languages such as Java, Visual Basic 3-6 (MCP), Visual C++, Delphi, C# and VB.Net through years.
He has experience in practically all (technical) stages of project development, including planning, framework development, user interface, business processes, as well as testing and documenting. He has worked on big and small projects in Slovenia and abroad (e.g. participated in completing level 3 IS for the Nucor steel plant, Hertford, USA).
Currently he enjoys programming in .net environment using C#. Since 2000 he has been active in Developer Express' DX Squad and has been ECDL trainer and tester. He also gives lectures on conferences and other events in Slovenia.