Add button in the titlebar of the toolwindow.

Hi Keshav,

You would have to customize the Style/ControlTemplate of the ToolWindowContainer in order to add a custom button. You can take our default Style and then tweak it to your needs, so you don't have to build your Style/ControlTemplate from scratch.

Hi,

If i added the custom button in the custom ControlTemplate of the ToolWindowContainer then how to define the data binding for that added custom button.

Hi Keshav,

What properties of the button are you trying to bind to?

The ToolWindowContainer itself doesn't really have a DataContext, other than the one inherited from the DockSite. You can bind to the SelecedWindow property of the ToolWindowContainer to get the currently selected window, and you could then get the view model for that window using the DataContext property (e.g. "{Binding Path=SelectedWindow.DataContext, RelativeSource={RelativeSource TemplatedParent}}").

Hi,

I had download the styles for the docking window and then i am not able to add the extra buttons in the tityle bar of the docking window.

How to customize the Style/ControlTemplate of the ToolWindowContainer in order to add a custom button ?

Hi Keshav,

If you look in our Containers.xaml file you can see where our ToolWindowContainer is defined and the title bar buttons are listed in there.  You'd need to clone that style, remove the x:Key, modify as needed, and put it in your App.Resources.

Hi,

If i added the custom button in the custom ControlTemplate of the ToolWindowContainer then how to define the data binding for that added custom button.

Hi Keshav,
For the binding of your custom button you'll have to make a command and set up a command binding at or above the DockSite level in the main window. That will handle the clicks of the button on the docked tool windows, but not when the windows are rafted, because they are in a separate RaftingWindow. So here you'll have to inherit DockSite and override the CreateRaftingWindow like you did before, call the base method, and put a command binding on the returned RaftingWindow before returning it from the overridden function.