The following table shows some of the more common .NET public control properties.

Table 1. Common .NET public control properties
Property Description
Anchor Gets or sets a System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles enumeration value that specifies the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent container.
Note: This property is mutually exclusive with and manages somewhat different behavior than the Dock property. The last property that you set takes precedence over the other.
Bottom Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel distance between the bottom edge of the control and the top edge of the client area of its control container.
Bounds Gets or sets a System.Drawing.Rectangle structure that specifies the location and size of the control or control container within the client area of its control container. For a form, the container is the screen area.
ClientSize Gets or sets a System.Drawing.Size structure that specifies the client area of the control or control container. The client area is everything within the bounds of the control or control container except non-client elements, such as the title bar of a form.
Controls Gets the object reference to the System.Windows.Forms.ControlCollection class instance for the form or other control container. Every .NET form or control container has a control collection where you can add or remove all the application controls that the form or control container contains, such as button, text, grid, and menu controls that you create and initialize for the form or control container. For more information on working with control collections, see Work with collections.
Dock Gets or sets a System.Windows.Forms.DockStyles enumeration value that specifies which borders of the control are docked to its parent container and determines how a control is resized with its parent.
Note: This property is mutually exclusive with and manages somewhat different behavior than the Anchor property. The last property that you set takes precedence over the other.
Enabled Gets or sets an ABL LOGICAL value indicating whether the control can respond to user interaction.
Font Gets or sets the font for the control or control container.
Height Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel height of the control.
Left Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel distance between the left edge of the control and the left edge of the client area of its control container.
Location Gets or sets a System.Drawing.Point structure that specifies the pixel coordinates of the upper-left-hand corner of the control within the client area of its parent control container.
Parent Gets or sets the object reference to a System.Windows.Forms.Control instance that is the parent form or control container for the control.
Right Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel distance between the right edge of the control and the left edge of the client area of its control container.
Size Gets or sets a System.Drawing.Size structure that specifies the width and height of the control or control container in pixels.
TabIndex Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the zero(0)-based tab order of the control within its control container. TabIndex values do not have to be contiguous. .NET simply observes the INTEGER order of the specified values.
TabStop Gets or sets an ABL LOGICAL value indicating if the control participates in the tab order.
Note: This property is always TRUE for an instance of any System.Windows.Form class (including Progress.Windows.Form).
Text Gets or sets an ABL CHARACTER value that represents a string value displayed for the control or control container, as defined for the particular control or control container.
Top Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel distance between the top edge of the control and the top edge of the client area of its control container.
Visible Gets or sets an ABL LOGICAL value that indicates whether the control or control container is visible to the user. The control or control container Show( ) method also sets this property to TRUE.
Width Gets or sets an ABL INTEGER value that specifies the pixel width of the control.