Overview

Actipro Docking & MDI has an enormous feature set related to layouts, globalization, and accessibility.

Layout Serialization

The full tool window layout can be saved to XML and restored later, allowing end users to retain their customized layout information across multiple application executions.

See the Layout Serialization topic for more information.

Nested Dock Sites

Dock sites can be nested, where a child DockSite is placed within a document window or tool window of an ancestor DockSite.

See the Nested Dock Sites topic for more information.

Side-by-Side Dock Sites

Dock sites are completely self-contained, meaning that you can have two DockSite in the same Window and tool windows belonging to one can't be moved into other, and vice versa.

See the Side-by-Side Dock Sites topic for more information.

Tool Window Inner-Fill

Actipro Docking & MDI supports tool window inner-fill mode, in which all tool windows fill the entire content area of the ancestor DockSite.

See the Tool Window Inner-Fill topic for more information.

Programmatic Layout

This topic covers several methods for programmatically arranging and resizing the docking windows.

See the Programmatic Layout topic for more information.

Flow Direction

Docking & MDI supports both left-to-right and right-to-left layouts via a simple property switch.

See the Flow Direction topic for more information.

Localization

All strings that are displayed in the user interface can be customized and localized. In addition, all user interface text properties have the Localizability attribute applied to them.

See the Localization topic for more information.

UI Automation

This product follows the WPF accessibility model for UI automation.

See the UI Automation topic for more information.