WinForms: Making a set of controls scale vertically.

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:27:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 19:31 UTC
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I have a Windows Form that displays several DataGridViews in the following layout:
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+-----------------------------------------+

Unfortunately, when the user resizes the form to be taller, the form ends up looking like this:

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|               |                             ||
|               |                             ||
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|               |                             ||
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+-----------------------------------------+

Instead of this:

+-----------------------------------------+  
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¦¦            ¦¦                             ¦¦
¦¦            ¦¦                             ¦¦
¦+-----------+¦                             ¦¦
|+-----------+¦                             ¦¦
¦¦            ¦¦                             ¦¦
¦¦            ¦¦                             ¦¦
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+-----------------------------------------+

To reproduce this, anchor the Top-Left DataGridView to Top-Left, the Center-Left DataGridView to Left, and the Bottom-Left DataGridView to Bottom-Left, and the big DataGridView to all 4.

What can I do to get the behavior I want?

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