Tip: Temporarily Disable Snaplines

The .NET 2.0 Forms Designer has an awesome new feature called Snaplines.  Snaplines show visual cues to help you line up controls on a form.  They make it very easy to conform to the Windows User Interface Guidelines.

But if you're in a situation where you want percise control over placement of a control, simply hold down the ALT key while you're dragging.  The snaplines don't appear and the control won't try to "snap" itself into one of the potential alignment positions.

Published Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:21 AM by PSteele

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