Docking for Silverlight

Overview

Are you comfortable handling multiple windows in your application? Save yourself the hassle with RadDocking for Silverlight – a docking system like the one in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. You get the dockable ToolWindows, a hidden DockingManager control, and a designer to make creating attractive layouts easy.

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Features

• Dockable Windows
• Floating Windows
• ToolWindow Control and Behavior
• Pin, Unpin and Hide
• Tabbed Documents
• Enhanced Routed Events Framework
• Codeless Test Automation for Docking

• Dockable Windows

  Telerik Silverlight Docking has full drag-and-drop support including the docking compass and the docking hints for visual feedback. You are free to drag the dockable windows anywhere in the container to create customized layouts. You have full control over which window can be docked and to which sides of the container.
  Hierarchies of arbitrary complexity can be created, and once windows are docked together they can be resized independently with the splitters between them.

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• Floating Windows

  Once you start dragging Pane or Group it moves to Floating window almost immediately. The hints of the Telerik Silverlight Docking for visual feedback show the user where the object will be placed. You can combine multiple windows in the floating group and have full control over which window can be floating. See demo
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• ToolWindow Control and Behavior

  The ToolWindow control provides a container that can be docked within the Telerik Silverlight Docking. You can place other controls within a ToolWindow. When the ToolWindow is about to be docked to a docking zone, the zone is highlighted to show where the object will be placed.
  

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• Pin, Unpin and Hide

  To display content on demand, a docked window can be pinned, unpinned or hidden.  The pane is in an unpinned state by default.  When unpinned, the pane collapses down to a tab.  To pin, unpin or hide a given window you can use either the icons on the top of the window, the navigation menu or the context menu. The context menu is set to open on CTRL+MouseLeftButtonClick.

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• Tabbed Documents

  For document-oriented applications, Telerik Silverlight Docking supports tabbed documents. It allows you to view documents by splitting them into multiple panes.

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• Enhanced Routed Events Framework

  To help your code become even more elegant and concise, we implemented Enhanced Routed Events Framework for RadControls for Silverlight.  This gives you more freedom when you design your applications since you can write instance handlers as well as class handlers for the routed events of our controls.

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• Codeless Test Automation for Docking

  Now you can record, execute and debug functional tests for Docking without leaving the familiar Visual Studio environment. Telerik WebUI Test Studio is an advanced click and play web application testing tool specialized for automating both AJAX and Silverlight applications. The Studio ships with special translators for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight.
  

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