The user isn't resizing the form to get more gray space but to make the controls bigger so that they will hold more data. For that to happen, the controls need to resize to take up the newly available space. You can do this manually by handling the form's Resize event and writing the code. Or you can do it with anchoring. Anchoring is one of the ways that WinForms provides for automatic layout control of your forms and the controls contained therein. By default, all controls are anchored to the upperleft, so that as the form is resized and moved, all controls are kept at their position relative to the upper-left corner of the form. However, in this case, we'd clearly like to have the text box controls widen or narrow as the form is resized. We implement this by setting each text box's Anchor property. In the Property Browser for the control, we choose the Anchor propert

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