Add controls to a form to fill it

Question

Let's say I have X number of buttons to add to my Form programmatically;

What I would like is that all the controls have the same size and that they fill the form completely depending on the form size, for example with 4 buttons :

9 buttons :

And what do you expect to happen if the user resizes the form? — Steve, Oct 08 '16 at 16:22
OK, who's stopping you? What's the problem? Are you asking how to create controls, or did you forget what the division operator looks like? It's this one: `/`. — 15ee8f99-57ff-4f92-890c-b56153, Oct 08 '16 at 16:30
[How to create a magic square using Windows Forms?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33968993/how-to-create-a-magic-square-using-windows-forms) — Reza Aghaei, Oct 08 '16 at 18:32

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '16 at 16:41

To layout controls you can use a TableLayoutPanel

var tableLayoutPanel = new TableLayoutPanel
{
    Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
    RowCount = 2,
    ColumnCount = 2
};

tableLayoutPanel.RowStyles.Add(new RowStyle(SizeType.Percent, 50));
tableLayoutPanel.RowStyles.Add(new RowStyle(SizeType.Percent, 50));
tableLayoutPanel.ColumnStyles.Add(new ColumnStyle(SizeType.Percent, 50));
tableLayoutPanel.ColumnStyles.Add(new ColumnStyle(SizeType.Percent, 50));

tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(new Button { Dock = DockStyle.Fill });
tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(new Button { Dock = DockStyle.Fill });
tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(new Button { Dock = DockStyle.Fill });
tableLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(new Button { Dock = DockStyle.Fill });

yourForm.Controls.Add(tableLayoutPanel);

It will also keep the aspect if you resize the form.

Add controls to a form to fill it

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