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Maximum form size restriction in Visual Studio 2008

I'm using Visual Studio 2008. The o/s is Win XP Pro.
Here's my problem:
The machine I'm working on is a PC and the monitor resolution is 1280 x 1024
The target machine on which the app will run is a media centre PC hooked up to a 42inch LCD display, on which the screen res is 1360 x 768.

I want the form to fill the entire TV screen, but my attempts to increase the form size to do this are thwarted by Visual Studio. Each time I try to set the width in the properties box, it bounces back to 1292. It looks as if I can set it at run time, but that doesn't really help, since I want to be able to accurately place all of the constituent parts precisely at design time.

Presumably the IDE is accessing the System to determine the machine's screen configuration, but this is not taking into account the possibility that the design machine and target machine may be different spec. Does anyone have any idea how I can override/bypass this 'handy little feature' of VS, and force it to accept a wider form size?
Apr 7 '08 #1
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