How to show winform with negative location values

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From: Sebastian Gingter
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:03

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Hello,

I have the following problem creating a screen saver:

I create a windows form that spans multiple monitors. In the 
constructor I resize the form to match the whole desktop - that works 
fine. As the last step, I change Location.X and Location.Y to the offset 
of the upper left edge of the desktop. In my testing case this is -1024, 
-768, since I moved the secondary display to the upper left of my 
primary screen.

The problem is, even when the values are set correctly (at least the 
debugger tells me that), the values will be reset and the window will be 
displayed at 0,0.

How can I force the form to be shown at the location I define in the 
constructor?

Thx,

    Sebastian

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