> That was a fixed non-resizable layout, showing static content. It eventually morphed into the Windows Forms builder which handled dynamic layouts quite well,

> That was a fixed non-resizable layout, showing static content. It eventually morphed into the Windows Forms builder which handled dynamic layouts quite well, if a little different to most. Elements could be "anchored" to specific points of their container, so you button 10px off the bottom left would always be 10px off the bottom left, elements you wanted to grow to fill available space could be anchored on either side. All handled well by the visual designer. Generally I prefer the gtk/qt method of just writing code, but the forms builder works really well too, both options are much better than the xml mess that is android and windows development these days.