A control just like Visual Studio's multi-tabbed docking/floating one

[Jon Clements]

Hi All,

I'm really not quite sure what I need to search for, to get a
walk-through on something like the above. I'd like to have in my own
application the kind of 'panel' on the left (Solution Explorer/Class
Viewer/Properties... the multi-tabbed jobbies in VS 2005) which has
document tabs at the bottom, which you can click between, or, you can
drag floating windows onto it, to add a tab; or, drag tabs off it, to
make them float. I've come across stuff that implies MFC, or in the
MSDN library there's something about using MDI and ToolStripPanel, but
that doesn't end up being what I want.

I've tried creating user controls and dragging them onto
ToolStripMenus/Panels, but the designer won't have it.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, so a pointer in the right
direction would be much appreciated. Even the classes/toolbox
components I should be using, so I could perform a decent search, would
be great.

Thanks,

Jon.

 

[Guest]

Have you thought of using Infragistics Controls.

We have used Infragistics on lot of our projects to do the VS 2005 look and
feel and works great. It saves you lot of time.

 

[Robbe Morris [C# MVP]]

you can purchase a decent one at

http://www.syncfusion.com

It is their docking manager component.

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