Zom Out malfunctions when Screen resolution changes

I've done this screen-independent layout (with and without zoom) many times and never had problems.
There are few simple rules you can check.

Look at your design-time generated form code (as C# source) and find all immediate constants of integer types. You should not find a single one that defined a size or location of any controls. Exclusions are: font size, form size — current and minimum/maximum — and padding. In other words, all controls should be docked and aligned using padding. You should do another simple check: change your form width/height drastically — layout should keep its sanity. If you should preserve aspect ratio of some elements, you should perform proper re-calculations in Resize event. Never use anchors — not only they use constants, they also tend to cause some flicker in resize. If you observe all this, you layout will tolerate screen size.

Additionally and optionally, you can read Screen size and change form size proportionally before you show it. (You can call some function with all adjustments and settings in a last line of the form constructor (right after a call to InitializeComponent()).

Forget about intellisense: what, is it difficult to see source code (from meta-data) or Help? By the way there is not SetDockStyle, there is the property Dock — don't blame your intellisense.

Alternative advice: switch to WPF, where all that problems are already well solved, including zoom and aspect ratio. Also, performance is way too superior compared to Forms.

Good luck.

—SA