How to override the preferred size of a WinForms TextBox?

Question

A TextBox in .NET does not let you adjust its height (there isn\'t even an AutoSize option).

i have a textbox that is cutting off the bottom of text in

Answer 1

Have you tried doing an override of

protected override System.Drawing.Size DefaultSize
{ get { return new System.Drawing.Size( 145, 52 ); } }

or whatever size you need

Depending on your purposes, and something I've done in the past was to create my own sub-classes for certain controls and did an override of things like FontSize, FontName, Size, etc and made them all as read-only (only applying an externally visible "getter" ). By doing this, any instances of my class that were put onto a WinForms form that had the design-time serialization would nag at me to get rid of the "read-only" property from the designer. After doing so early on in the development, these controls never had a problem again. If I ever changed it, the form would get the newest value/size/font in the designer without having to go through every form and every instance of the control.

I found it to work well with things like a textbox that would be showing date only, or date/time fields, additionally applied to labels, command buttons, and other "common" purpose elmeents. So, throughout the app, it was almost like applying a cascading style sheet, but at a WinForms level.

Just a thought and hope it opens you to another approach to your dilemma.