Docking Forms & Tabs - Visual Basic .NET

adebiasio

Does anybody have any code samples that show me how to dock tabs
around a form. I have found numerous controls out there that does the
job, but I want to learn how to code it myself.

Any sites that show how to code this.
Thanks!

Apr 11 '07 #1

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Johnny Jörgensen

If anybody has got a REALLY good docking window control (preferably free),
I'm VERY interested in hearing about it.

I'm doing a project where I need to have auto-hide windows tabbed to both
sides of the form. All the controls I've found are more or less useless
(i.e. they work, but are very hard to work with). The easiest and most
useful control I've found is Actipro's UI Studio which has a visual design
interface, and you don't have to keep all your docking content in separate
windows as with other controls. Unfortunately, there's a bug in it, so if
you've got a window docked to the right border of the form, it's "jerky"
when the pane expands.

In another answer to this thread, I've given a link to the free Weifenluo
DockPane Suite control which would be a perfect solution if it wasn't
because it's very hard to use and uselessly documented.

Has anybody got a good solution to how to create good auto-hide panels
(VS.NET style) on a form?

Cheers,
Johnny

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Does anybody have any code samples that show me how to dock tabs
around a form. I have found numerous controls out there that does the
job, but I want to learn how to code it myself.

Any sites that show how to code this.
Thanks!

Apr 12 '07 #2

Johnny Jörgensen

This guy is doing a free docking component and all the source code is
availbale too:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=128114

Cheers
Johnny J.
<ad*******@symp atico.cawrote in message
news:11******** *************@q 75g2000hsh.goog legroups.com...

Does anybody have any code samples that show me how to dock tabs
around a form. I have found numerous controls out there that does the
job, but I want to learn how to code it myself.

Any sites that show how to code this.
Thanks!

Apr 12 '07 #3

Mick Doherty

Maybe you've already seen this list but...
http://www.windowsforms.net/ControlG...=7&tabindex=10

I can't say what any of them are like though.

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Mick Doherty
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/nothing.html
"Johnny Jörgensen" <jo**@altcom.se wrote in message
news:ua******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP04.phx.gbl...

If anybody has got a REALLY good docking window control (preferably free),
I'm VERY interested in hearing about it.

I'm doing a project where I need to have auto-hide windows tabbed to both
sides of the form. All the controls I've found are more or less useless
(i.e. they work, but are very hard to work with). The easiest and most
useful control I've found is Actipro's UI Studio which has a visual design
interface, and you don't have to keep all your docking content in separate
windows as with other controls. Unfortunately, there's a bug in it, so if
you've got a window docked to the right border of the form, it's "jerky"
when the pane expands.

In another answer to this thread, I've given a link to the free Weifenluo
DockPane Suite control which would be a perfect solution if it wasn't
because it's very hard to use and uselessly documented.

Has anybody got a good solution to how to create good auto-hide panels
(VS.NET style) on a form?

Cheers,
Johnny

<ad*******@symp atico.cawrote in message
news:11******** *************@q 75g2000hsh.goog legroups.com...
>Does anybody have any code samples that show me how to dock tabs
around a form. I have found numerous controls out there that does the
job, but I want to learn how to code it myself.

Any sites that show how to code this.
Thanks!

Apr 12 '07 #4

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