Im looking for a docking control similar to visual studio. [For use in a c# program]
I've played around alot with the Weifen-Luo's Docking Library, which works great but is not quite right for what i'm working on. I need to be able to dock items within a tab control (or panel would work too) rather then within an mdi form.
The reason I'm looking to dock within in a tab is because with the current setup my main form has two tabs.
- one that runs the main program
- Another that has separate analysis tools.
Within the main tab I don't want any docking control. But within the second tab I would like the user to be able to use docking with the tools.
I'm hoping for a free solution, maybe there is some mod I can make to the Weifen-Luo's Docking Library source.
I'm just looking for any suggestions, thanks in advance!
For WPF, I can recommend AvalonDock. It's also used by SharpDevelop:
I was able to make it work With the Free Weifen-Luo's Docking Library.
you can simply add your dock panel to a user control or a tab control or any other type of container.
Controls.Add(dockPanel);
The one thing that was missing was that in order to use the DockStyle.Document you must have the following line of code:
dockPanel.DocumentStyle = DocumentStyle.DockingWindow;
This allows DockStyle.Document to be used with something other then an MDI interface.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9068122/docking-control-similar-to-visual-studio