I am trying to figure the best way to programmatically re-size table column headers in ReportViewer.
Basically, my current resolution is the following:
ColumnWidth = HeaderCaption_CharacterCount * 0.32
Where 0.32 is an estimated width of a typical character using my current font size. The issue is that the width leaves a lot of whitespace for longer captions. The more characters a caption has, the more whitespace I end up with.
The issue with estimating this way is that not all characters are the same width. A good example would the the "I" character, which takes up less screen width than the rest of the alphabet.
Can someone suggest a better way to do this?
EDIT I found a better way to handle this. There is a method that will calculate the width (in pixels) of a string of text.
Size = TextRenderer.MeasureText([String], [Font])
I am currently experimenting with this,and it looks promising.