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title: "How to get Current position of a control on Win Form"  
description: "How to get Current position of a control on Win Form"  
author: "Mark Devid"  
published: 2013-12-16  
updated: 2013-12-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1775/how-to-get-current-position-of-a-control-on-win-form  
category: "c#"  
tags: ["c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to get Current position of a control on Win Form

[Am trying](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36834/which-two-programming-languages-should-i-master-in-if-i-am-trying-to-get-into-google-or-facebook) very hard but not find any [method](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/166/webservice-method) to get the [location](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11636/relocating-business-or-office-to-another-location)(x,y) of the [control](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/197/asp-dot-net-repeater-control) like picturebox on the form.please help me ...

## Replies

### Reply by Pravesh Singh

Hi Mark,\

you can just use picturebox1.Left as you X and picturebox1.Top as your Y or

you can combine PointToScreen and PointToClient:

Point locationOnForm = control.FindForm().PointToClient(

control.Parent.PointToScreen(picturebox1.Location));

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