dockable windows?

[Marco Jez]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to Windows Forms (and .NET in general) so excuse me if this is a
FAQ. I was wondering how I can make panels that can be either floating or
docked at the form's sides, just like the ones used in Visual Studio itself
(property editor, solution explorer, etc.). Is there such a control in
Windows Forms or I have to build it by myself?

Thanks in advance,
Marco

 

[Jan Tielens]

Marco

There are plenty of controls that allow you to create dockable windows. I
use the Docking Suite, it works great and is free:
http://divil.co.uk/net/controls/dockingsuite/

 

[Marco Jez]

Hi Jan,

There are plenty of controls that allow you to create dockable windows. I
use the Docking Suite, it works great and is free:
http://divil.co.uk/net/controls/dockingsuite/

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!

Cheers,
Marco

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I'm new to Windows Forms (and .NET in general) so excuse me if this is a
FAQ. I was wondering how I can make panels that can be either floating or
docked at the form's sides, just like the ones used in Visual Studio itself
(property editor, solution explorer, etc.). Is there such a control in
Windows Forms or I have to build it by myself?

There are commercial components avaliable for this purpose, for example
<http://www.dotnetmagic.com>.

 

[Saurabh]

Just wondering if anybody has been able to dock a .NET form window to a
parent MDI window which is created in C++ ?

--Saurabh