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I've been at this for weeks...I am creating a WPF application that uses Avalon Dock 2.0 in the the Main Window. I am trying to use the Docking Manager in a MVVM way, so I have DockingManager.DocumentsSource bound to an ObservableCollection<object> property in my MainViewModel . I also created a custom DataTemplateSelector and bound it to DockingManager.LayoutItemTemplateSelector . The problem I am having: I add a ViewModel to the documents source. My custom DataTemplateSelector.SelectTemplate() is called. The item parameter in SelectTemplate() is a System.Windows.Controls.ContentPresenter

In order to save and load my layout I followed the instructions here , but it didn't work for me. I've got this XAML inside the MainWindow : <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <Button Content="Save" Click="SaveButton_Click"/> <Button Content="Load" Click="LoadButton_Click"/> <ad:DockingManager x:Name="myDM"> <ad:LayoutRoot> <ad:LayoutPanel> <ad:LayoutDocumentPane> <ad:LayoutDocument Title="Document"> <TextBox /> </ad:LayoutDocument> </ad:LayoutDocumentPane> </ad:LayoutPanel> <ad:LayoutRoot.LeftSide> <ad:LayoutAnchorSide> <ad:LayoutAnchorGroup> <ad:LayoutAnchorable Title="Left"> <TextBox/> <

My application is build around AvalonDock, which has quite good Visual Studio 2010 skin (which is much prettier than all the other skins). Now I would like to style the rest of my application to go with it. I'm interested most in following parts: Toolbar - I mostly managed to get the colors right on my own, but the VS toolbars are still prettier. (Context)Menu - VS has the blue menu item focus box replaced with a nice orange one, which gives the application much warmer and friendlier feel. Main window background - this is one thing which AD didn't get right. Are these styles somewhere on the

I am trying to use AvalonDock in my wpf application which is an MVVM application. Looking around I could not find any sample application showing how can I do this. AlavonDock says that it has native support for MVVM, so it should be easy to support mvvm, but there is no sample code. My questions are: How to write xaml that has a document manager and it is binded to viewmodel? How to add a new document to panel in this scenario? How can I get information about layout from documentmanegr (if it is possible). Martin there is an Example App in the CodePlex Source of AvalonDock - it's not included