Our primary weapon in our auto-layout arsenal is the Table Layout Panel (TLP). TLPs act similar to HTML tables in their ability to regulate space and flow on a form. The TableLayoutPanel has several key sources of information that it uses to determine the size/location of child controls, a collection of child controls to layout (in the Control collection), a number of rows and columns to generate, and a collection of row and column styles to determine the sizing characteristics for each row/column.