How do you resize a form to fit its content automatically?

Question

I am trying to implement the following behaviour:

On a form there is a tabcontrol. On that tabcontrol there is a treeview. To prevent scrollbars appearing, I would like the form to change its size according to the contents of the treeview when displayed for the first time.

If the treeview has too many nodes to be displayed on the default size of the form, the form should change it's size so that there is no vertical scrollbar on the treeview (up to a maximum size allowed by the size of the screen).

What I need to know is, if it is possible to achieve this behaviour through the properties of the controls. I'm sure this can be achieved by calculating and settings the sizes of the elements programmatically, but I would like to know if there is a way to achieve this by settings like AutoSizeMode etc.

[UPDATE]

It's the first dialog a user of my application sees: It's a dialog to select the database to work with. It's a list of databases, with a tabcontrol, buttens etc. If the list is too long, scrollbars appear and a colleague of mine wants them to disappear.

Answer 1

Use the AutoSize and AutoSizeMode properties.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.autosize.aspx

An example:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {     // no smaller than design time size     this.MinimumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(this.Width, this.Height);      // no larger than screen size     this.MaximumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height, (int)System.Windows.SystemParameters.PrimaryScreenHeight);      this.AutoSize = true;     this.AutoSizeMode = AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink;      // rest of your code here... }