Help me with Weifen Luo library ...

Question

I want to make only two panels like solution explorer and toolbox (visual studio) in my application.

The problem is that i don't understand how it works in weifen library. Can you give me a step-by-step explaination how can I make two dockable panels, please ?

Answer 1

Follow the following steps:

• Add reference to the Docking library.
• Create two forms.

• For each form go to source view and extend them from the DockContent class.

  public partial class ToolWindow : DockContent
  {
       public ToolWindow()
      {
          InitializeComponent();
      }
  }
  

• Add a DockPanel control to your main form. This is where your tool windows will be docked.

• To show the tool windows here is the sample code

  ToolWindow myToolWindow = new ToolWindow();
  myToolWindow.Show(this.myDockPanel, DockState.DockLeftAutoHide); // Dock Left & Auto Hide