>>>Hi all, I just installed an app of mine on a laptop and guess what ? the main opening form ( which has a lot of info on it ) is way too large for the laptop. I seem to recall in VFP there was a maximum design area which gave you a pretty good idea what would fit - is there something like this in VS ? or is this the wrong way to go ? ( I have a feeling it is :-( ) All suggestions gratefully received
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>>As John suggests *never*, unless you have very good reasons, hard code a Height or Width for a window (or, for that matter, anything else). If you do want to constrain the upper limits use MaxWidth/MaxHeight. Otherwise, If you want the window to fill the current screen you can just set WindowState to WindowState.Maximized.
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>>HTH
>Hi Viv, I never hard code Height or Width , what I was trying ( badly ) to say was, is there a way of knowing if a form will spill over on a smaller monitor than the one used in VS, I guess I will have to add the dreaded scrollbars to this one screen ( all the rest are fine )

I see this is actually a WinForms rather than a WPF issue. And there was me thinking you'd seen sense :-} g,d&r

Well there's always the concisely named System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.PrimaryMonitorMaximizedWindowSize for you to play with ......