Setting DockSite.CascadeDocuments order

Hi Rex,

For Cascade, the order is done by the docking window's LastActiveDateTime.  Unfortunately that property is publicly read-only right now.  Activating a docking window will update its LastActiveDateTime.  While we don't specify a secondary sort for when docking windows that have the same LastActiveDateTime, I believe it will be the order they appear in the StandardMdiHost.Windows collection, since that is what we call the OrderBy on.

For the Tile operations, those are done purely by the order in which the docking windows appear in the StandardMdiHost.Windows collection.

Thanks. Is there any workaround to control the order for both the cascade and tile operations?

Hi Rex,

Not at this time other than possibly altering the Windows collection but we haven't tried that.  What did you have in mind?

Thanks. I figured out a dirty workaround:

Use reflection to set the LastActiveDateTime value according to our ordering logic.

It will then work for the cascade operation.

For the tile operation, just do an extra cascade operation prior to the tile operation.