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.

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