Dockable Windows

[rbulph]

Is there any easy way to implement dockable windows like the Solution Explorer and Toolbox in .Net in an application? VB now does so much that I rather expect that there must be, but I can't find it. If not, I shall just use permanently docked panels that the user can simply make wider or narrower.

 

[Cags]

As far as I know the only way todo this is to buy a 3rd part user control such as the one included in .Net Magic (http://www.dotnetmagic.com/ - Crownwood Software), or by making one yourself.

 

[rbulph]

Thanks. User will have to do without.

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Out of interest a better alternative (IMNSHO) to the Crownwood library can be found at www.divil.co.uk.

 

[Cags]

As you say there are many alternatives, I by no means intended to imply .Net Magic was the best solution, it was merely the only example I knew off hand (as the company I did my placement year at used it).