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How do I set dock property of a datagridview properly?

In a datagridview when I set:
Anchor: Top,Left
AutoSizeColumn: Fill
Dock: Fill
Which will expand or shrink the datagridview based on size of the form, and covers the whole form. But what of I have controls on the right side on the form? I don't want to overlap my linkbuttons with my gridview. I know there's a "Margin" and "Default Cell Style" property with padding values (specifically using "right padding" to try and reduce width from the right of the right edge of the form). So I tried messing with that, didn't do anything I want. Or was I working with the right properties, just not setting them right?

Put those controls you want on the right in a Panel.
Set the DockStyle of that panel as DockStyle.Right.
If you can't see the right edge of the Datagrid means, you have to bring the Datagrid to front by selecting it, right click and choose bringToFront.
Or Send the Panel to back.

1.Use a panel to split the form into two sections.
The right section is placed with DataGridView, and the left section is placed with a panel which is used to contain your other controls, like linkbuttons.
2.Set the Dock property of this panel to Right.
3.Set the Dock property of this DataGridView to Fill.

Auto resizing controls on full screen in windows forms

I want to auto resize my windows form controls on fullscreen. I use tableLayoutPanel and anchoring.
But it's not pleasing to the eyes. I used flowLayoutPanel, but it doesn't work. I have around 35 controlrs on one single form, including labels, textboxes, comboboxex, radiobuttons, datagridview and checkbox.
Is there any other method by which I can resize the controls? And if not, can anybody suggest me a way to use the tableLayoutPanel and anchoring more effectively?

It seems to me that what you want to use is the Dock property of all controls as well as using TableLayoutPanel. From the images you provided it looks like you want want the top half of the form to be a TableLayoutPanel, and to set the Dock Property to DockStyles.Fill. Then set the bottom ListView to DockStyles.Bottom.
You can either dock each control in a TableLayoutPanel cell or set the Anchor properties to AnchorStyles.None to make the controls automatically be centered in the cells.

How do I make multiple controls in a Windows Form automatically resize with the window?

I'm new to Windows Forms in Visual Studio, and I am wondering how to automaticly resize controls to the window size.
Say, I have 2 controls in a panel, a List Box and a Button. I want the button to dock to the bottom, and I want the List Box to fit the rest of the space. when the window resizes, the button should be at the bottom (as expected with docking), and the list box should stretch down to the button.
Is there a way to do this without any code?
Thanks.

Dock is pretty easy to use, but I recommend using the Anchor properties instead. Resize your form to a reasonable size in the Designer. Then, place your controls to look the way you want. Then, decide which controls should resize with the form and set the Anchor property as follows:
If you want the control to resize with the form in width, set the Right anchor.
If you want to resize height, set the Bottom anchor.
If you want the control to stay right when the form resizes, unset the Left anchor.
If you want the control to stay bottom when the form resizes, unset the Top anchor.
The problem I have with Docks is that they sometimes act funny when controls are not declared in a specific order, and to get the effect you want, sometimes you have to create extraneous panels just to hold controls.

It really gets messy when you want to maintain the aspect ratio of each control. One way, which is not really up to the mark if you want to get into fixing the details, is to use TableLayoutPanel and use Dock and Anchor wisely to achieve what you want.

Use the dock and fill options on the controls. Look under properties for each object, and containers if they are in any.

You can use SplitContainer
Google for examples. Here is one

Try setting your ListBox's Dock property to Fill.
You'll need to watch for one thing though: by default the ListBox will size itself to display whole list items. If you resize the control so that it displays a partial item it will adjust itself so it will display a complete item. This can make the control appear to lose its 'Dock'ing behavior. The solution for this is to set the ListBox's IntegralHeight property to false, which specifies that the control not resize itself to fit complete items.

Make UserControl resize when Dock = Fill

I have a problem with UserControl that I'm crafting. It consists of TableLayoutPanel with another TableLayoutPanel in it with ListView inside. I want to make it resizable so that it will fit in left panel of my app and behave somewhat like Toolbox in Visual Studio. The problem is that my control doesn't scale when I resize panel.
UserControl is embedded in panel with Dock = Fill and Anchor = Tob, Left, Bottom, Right. Also all controls in it are made that way. How can I fix this?
EDIT: It's WinForms, not XAML.

Use a split panel and put your UserControl in the left panel and Dock.Fill it.

You're probably looking for the AutoSize properties on the TableLayoutPanel and the AutoSize ColumnType of that panel.
You can achieve something like a Dock = Fill by simply auto-sizing the table layout panel (GrowAndShrink) so that it will always fit your inner control.
Please post your designer code to see how you embedded the controls in which other control.

I suspect your resize problem come from your resizing strategy of control inside the TableLayoutPanel.
The table layout panel is tricky. Regarding the resize strategy you want to follow inside a cell of the table panel, the control in the cell have either to be Dock.Fill or Anchor = Top, Left, Bottom, Right.
Basically:
Il you want the grid cell to adapt to the size of the control, then have the control in the cell Anchor = Top, Left, Bottom, Right and set the row/column to autosize.
If you want the control in the cell to adapt to the cell size, use Dock.Fill on it and use a percentage or a absolute value to size your cell.
The behavior of the TableLayoutPanel is best described in the MSDN documentation.

How can I organize controls on a form relative to one another and the form itself?

I have a child form in a MDI Windows Forms application. It has two controls: a ComboBox and a TreeView, with the last one under the first one. Both controls have the same width. How can I set up them and form properties to achieve the following:
When changing the size of the form, a width of both controls must be equal to the width of the form.
The height of the TreeView must be changing to fill all free space of the form.

You can do like this:
In the forms designer, layout the controls like you want them to look
Select the ComboBox, and set the Anchor property to Top, Left and Right
Select the TreeView and set the Anchor property to Top, Left, Right, and Bottom

Basically, you would need to dock your controls. Play with the Dock property of your both controls to find the "docking" which suits your requirements.
Here is an example which demonstrates a Combobox with Dock=Top and TreeView with Dock=Fill:
If you resize the form, the Combobox width and TreeView width/height will be resized accordingly, which suits your specific requirements.

This is done by the Anchor property. Set it properly on all controls (combobox, treeview and usercontrol) and it will stretch however way you like.
The Dock property is similar, but it also affects location and kinda "glues" the control to its place even in the form designer.