How to hide a nested ToolWindowContainer in XAML

Hi Rick,

You would need to put the ToolWindowContainer that contains twTwo and twThree into the DockSite.AutoHideLeftContainers collection instead to achieve that.

Putting them in the AutoHideLeftContainer means they would nolonger be nested within the ToolWindowContainer that hosts twOne so when you unhide and pin twTwo or twThree the user would see two side-by-side tool windows rather than twOne and twTwo/twThree stacked.

Hi Rick,

Yes that's true.  What you could do is leave the XAML as you have it, then run your app.  Auto-hide the twTwo/twThree container.  Then serialize your layout to XML and use that as your app's default layout that you ship with, meaning if the user hasn't yet saved a layout when the app runs, restore this default layout from XML.  It should have a breadcrumb in it that tells the tool windows where to restore to when docked again.

OK, Thanks.  I can do that, but was hoping there was a way to configure this directly in XAML.  Can you add this as an enhancement request? 

Hi Rick,

How would you like to see this work?  Do you have any sample XAML ideas you were thinking of?

I was thinking a property (State?) on the ToolWindowContainer that could be set via XAML.  Options could be something like Hidden, Visible, Floating, etc.

        <docking:DockSite x:Name="dockSite" >
            <docking:DockSite.AutoHideBottomContainers>
                <docking:ToolWindowContainer >
                    <docking:ToolWindow Title="Bottom ToolWindow" />
                </docking:ToolWindowContainer>
            </docking:DockSite.AutoHideBottomContainers>
            <docking:SplitContainer Orientation="Horizontal">
                <docking:SplitContainer Orientation="Vertical">
                    <docking:ToolWindowContainer>
                        <docking:ToolWindow Title="twOne"/>
                    </docking:ToolWindowContainer>
                    <docking:ToolWindowContainer State="Hidden">
                        <docking:ToolWindow Title="twTwo"/>
                        <docking:ToolWindow Title="twThree" />
                    </docking:ToolWindowContainer>
                </docking:SplitContainer>
                <docking:Workspace>
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