How to implement mdi in a wpf application

Question

I'm mew to WPF and I really like MDI applications. It allows me to move quickly between windows and compare the content of different windows. Furthermore, sometime the content of one window is useful for another so I can copy and paste. I think it's a great user experience for working mode.

Right or wrong practice, I love it.

I saw http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1651424/mdi-applications-in-wpf

and there they gave the vs2010 environment as an example. I didn't understand if and how it is possible to implement that environment: like having tabs that can be tear off to independent screen(less important for me) and rearranged side by side with the rest of the tabs.

EDIT:

I guess that I was looking for "docking layout system in wpf" ,googleing this offer 3rd party components.

I think I'll start with a "normal" application. It feels like there is no easy out of the box implementation here.

Thanks for your help Asaf

Answer 1

I don't think their is a built in way to do this. However you may want to look at buying a set of user controls from someone such as DevExpress, Component One, Infragisitcs, Telerik... I would think most of them will have a similar control to how VS2010 works. I know DevExpress does.