>I would think you just do in .Net as we've always done with VFP and just take a substring of the status to ensure it fits.
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>If you want to get more precise, within GDI+ in system.drawing, you can get the actual width of the text using "tosize".

It acts as if it would wrap. I have found a property AutoSize which enables automatic resizing when the text does not wrap. But, I cannot find a property to tell to wrap or not.