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Want to cancel resize on a control?

If you are trying to cancel the resize event, it might be more difficult than you had imagined. A lot of the time you will find posts on stack overflow mentioning storing and restoring of the size before and after it resizes.

I have two problems with that:
1) it isn't actually canceling the resizing
2) that is not what the user asked for

Sadly, canceling the resize event isn't actually possible. At least not in the traditional sense. You can however, override the OnResize event of the control and then not call the base.

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    protected override void OnResize(EventArgs e)
    {
        //base.OnResize(e);
    }

This will for all intents and purposes, cancel the resize event. Even though one cannot cancel the resize event, or so I was told. Maybe you can... Maybe you can't, I don't know. But I bet it won't resize anymore!

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