Is the size of a Form in Visual Studio designer limited to screen resolution?

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Why is it, that in the Visual Studio WinForms designer I cannot increase the size of my Form above the resolution of the screen I am currently working on? I think it should somehow be possible to develop an application aimed at higher resolutions on a lower res system. The fact that this would clip the Form during debugging should not be an issue. Is there perhaps some setting in Visual Studio for this, which I cannot seem to find?

EDIT: My main issue is that I need to be able to design a (for example) 1440x900 sized form on a laptop with a (for example) 1360x768 screen.

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I am working on a design that uses a vertical screen, 1080x1920. Sometimes I need to work on the main form on a different machine that does not have a vertical screen. Every time I work on the main form, the form resolution is forced to 1080x1109. What a pain. The only thing I can do is make the changes, then use Windows multiscreen to change the desktop so one monitor is above the other. Then extend the design window to span 2 monitors, then manually change the size of the form. There is no way this "feature" is not a bug.

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