How has control placement been made easier in Visual Basic .NET?
In Visual Studio 2005, two new containers are available that facilitate control placement: the FlowLayoutPanel and the TableLayoutPanel. These controls differ from the Panel container control that was previously available in the way in which controls are placed within it. The two new controls offer full customization for how and where you would like your contained controls to be displayed. The FlowLayoutPanel makes it easy to automatically position controls when they are added to the container. When controls are added to the panel, they will flow horizontally and vertically to fit within the container. This makes it quick in situations where you would like to deal with perfectly aligned tuples of several controls (for example, several text boxes and labels). You can change the order in which controls flow by changing the values of the FlowDirection property. The TableLayoutPanel control offers a row-column approach by which to arrange your controls. A noticeable difference is that only
