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Create a "floating" control in C# (WinForm app) without WPF

Hi,

I want to create a "floating" control - like Visual Studio's ones (The solution explorer, for example).

How can I implement such thing?

Thank you.

+1  A: 

I don't think there is anything built-in to WinForms but there are several third-party controls that allow this functionality.

One popular set of controls is the ones from Telerik: http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/dock.aspx

And another one is the controls from Ingragistics: http://www.infragistics.com/dotnet/netadvantage/winforms/windockmanager.aspx#Overview

Both these are commercial packages and I don't know of any free packages that offer the same.

Rune Grimstad  2010-09-07 08:24:15
Here's one open source under MIT license - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockpanelsuite/
VinayC  2010-09-07 08:52:34

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