C＃Designer中的粘贴粘贴停靠控件

Question

I am designing the UI of my program with a TableLayoutPanel, with each control docked in its cell with Dock = Fill . Since a lot of the controls are similar, I want to use copy-paste to populate the layout. However, the newly pasted control is put in the bottom -left cell by default. Furthermore, since it is docked, I cannot move it in the designer, so the only way I could put it in the correct cell is by setting Dock = None , drag it, then setting Dock = Fill again. This is very annoying, and to some extent defeats the purpose to use copy-paste in the first place (to avoid forgetting to set Dock ). Are there any better ways I can create such a layout?

Answer 1

I just found out that, when put into a TableLayoutPanel, the control has a Cell property. Modifying it allows me to move the control within the TableLayoutPanel without first undocking it.

Of course, Hans Passant's suggestion of first moving the controls, then mass-set the Dock property also works.