How to arrange controls side-by-side without using TableLayoutPanel?

I have been using TableLayoutPanel for arranging controls. Recently I discovered that TableLayoutPanel does not support visual inheritance. I am now in the process of removing TableLayoutPanel from my project. However, I do not understand how to arrange controls side-by-side. So far, what I see is that I can set the Dock property of controls to either 'Top' or 'Bottom' and they will stack on top of each other in the order they are added to the Form.Controls collection. The problem with this is that I would like to have the controls side-by-side (horizontally) instead of being on top of each other (vertically). Note that I want to use the Dock property so that controls resize automatically when the Form is resized by the user. I do not want static controls that cannot resize.

I do want a solution that supports visual inheritance. There are a number of controls that do not support this, as explained here: http://ift.tt/1GxGqCE