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horizontal line in c# forms

Hey all,

A real basic question I presume. I simply want to draw horizontal lines on my forms for formatting and neatness on my GUI.

I got the drawing toolbar up, but it is always greyed out.

Suggestions?

Thanks.

strickdd

You could draw a picture box and set the background color to black if you want... That's the best thing I can think of right now, but I'll look more into it.

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Mike Tomlinson

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Dodger42

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Thanks IM, that is close, but its quite clunky. Grabbing and dragging the flattened label is akward. Surely there is another way. In vs2005, if you go to options, you can see the sort of horizontal line I mean above the OK, Cancel buttons.

Mike Tomlinson

I know it's clunky and a pain in the arse to move around...

Unfortunately there just isn't a plain old line control included in .Net!

Sorry...

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Bob Learned

You can draw lines in the Paint event using GDI+, but that may be just as "clunky".

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Dodger42

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Thanks all. I guess there are several answers which get a solution. I'm shocked given the frequent use of lines in forms, that MS havent included a control even after all these years of forms design.

Mike Tomlinson

So am I. =)

The lowly VB6 had a line control (also a rectangle and ellipse control wrapped in a Shape control) that many people miss after moving to VB.Net