Adding new pane where old panes are loaded through serialisation

[Mike]

Hi

I have an app that I have a docked component and the existing panes are saved/loaded via isolated storage. This has been working fine. I've now added a new pane to my app, via XAML, but when it's run on a system where the layout is loaded it is never displayed.

If I exclude the layout load step the new pane appears, so I guess in the load it's overriding the entire layout of the dock component (as expected). If I then manually add a step in the LoadLayout method to add the pane, that also seems to be ignored.

Here is the important code and the examples of what I've tried:

using (IsolatedStorageFile storage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForAssembly())
{
    try
    {
        using (var isoStream = storage.OpenFile("RadDocking_Layout.xml", FileMode.Open))
        {
            this.radDocking.LoadLayout(isoStream);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        logger.Error("Reading pane layout");
    }
}

if (panelMap.PaneGroup == null)
{
    //this doesn't work
    radDocking.Items.Add(panelMap);

    //neither does adding into existing pane group
    paneTest.Items.Add(panelMap);

    //neither does building a new group for the pane to go into
    RadPaneGroup rpg = new RadPaneGroup();
    rpg.Items.Add(panelMap);
    radSplit.Items.Add(rpg);
}

//Part of the XAML
<tel:RadDocking Name="radDocking" HasDocumentHost="False">
    <tel:RadSplitContainer x:Name="radSplit" Width="365" InitialPosition="DockedLeft" Orientation="Vertical">
        <tel:RadPaneGroup x:Name="paneTest">
            <tel:RadPane x:Name="panelMap" Header="Map" CanUserClose="False" Height="24" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" IsSelected="True" tel:RadDocking.SerializationTag="Map">

 
I've obviously got something missing, but when I've looked a the examples I can't seem to figure out what.

Thanks...

[George]

Hi Mike,

Try to create the pane in the code behind. You can find a sample project which after loading the layout creates a new pane and add it next to the existing one. 

Hope this helps.

Regards,
George
Telerik