How to maintain relative position of windows forms in different screen resolutions?

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I'm building a windows form (form1) which opens another form (form2) on the click of a button. I want the second form to always appear 100px above the first one and i want the first one to appear exactly 600px from the left side of the screen. I can manually code their positions but then when i run the program on a different screen resolution, their positions go haywire.
I don't find find any dock and anchor properties either for the forms (like the ones present for controls).
Is there any way i can position the forms relative to each other and also to the screen?

Posted 18-Apr-10 14:17pm

S.Raaj Nishanth

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Not Active · Answer 1 · 2010-04-18T14:27:00

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There is no docking or anchor properties that relate to the overall screen. You can use SystemInformation.PrimaryMonitorSize to retrieve the screen size and position you forms appropriately.

Posted 18-Apr-10 14:27pm

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