Dockable Windows in Whidbey

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Is there any provision for creating winform applications that have dockable
windows ( Like the VS.NET IDE ) in whidbey ?
I just installed the beta and cant seem to find it.
Am i asking for too much or just too tired ?

P.S. Cudnt find whidbey newsgroup as well. Whats the name of it anyways ?

Thanx
rawCoder
 
rawCoder said:
Is there any provision for creating winform applications that have
dockable
windows ( Like the VS.NET IDE ) in whidbey ?
I just installed the beta and cant seem to find it.
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AFAIK, no.
P.S. Cudnt find whidbey newsgroup as well. Whats the name of it anyways ?
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<URL:http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=whidbey>

Infos on how to view these groups with an NNTP news client:

<URL:http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/ICP/whidbey/US/welcomePage.htm>
 
Does that mean that controls won't have the Docked property in vs.net 2005?
If so, that's a good reason not to upgrade!
 
Dock Windows, ala Visual Studio .Net, no. There is no provision for them.
Infragistics WinForm controls do provide for dockable Windows as do others.
I believe that SyncFusion also provides for them.

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Dennis said:
Does that mean that controls won't have the Docked property in vs.net
2005?
If so, that's a good reason not to upgrade!
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No, that's not what he meant. Controls will still have the Docked property.
What rawCoder was asking is if Whidbey would have a scheme whereby you can
put docking subwindows in your app, just like the VS.NET IDE.
 
Sorry,

Forget my message, good one however in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Cor
 
Dennis,

Dennis said:
Does that mean that controls won't have the Docked property in vs.net
2005?
If so, that's a good reason not to upgrade!
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Controls will still have a 'Dock' property, but there won't be support for
creating UIs like those of VS.NET! Notice that there are some (commercial)
3rd-party components for docked windows support, like the Magic Library, for
example, available.
 
Thanks. I didn't even know you can dock windows in 2003, just controls like
panels, etc.
 
Dennis said:
I didn't even know you can dock windows in 2003, just controls like
panels, etc.
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Docking windows was not supported in .NET 1.0/1.1 Windows forms. It's a
feature of the Visual Studio .NET /IDE/.
 
Thank You all for your comments

Just a quick question ? Why is it not yet provided ? I mean ofcourse only
MSFT business guys wud know, but its real ironic that the Visual Studio 6
IDE had this docking feature back in 94-98 and microsoft for some real good
reason is reluctant in publishing atleast entry level windows docking. I
know the vendors like infragistics and others solely depend on the
shortcomings of .NET controls but ...

Well just was a little curious.

Thanx anyways
rawCoder
 
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