Hi Ryan,
We are aware of this problem. To stop the animation you could set the AnimationManager.AnimationSelector attached property of the Docking control to null. This will stop all animations. You can re-enable them once the pane is added (after its loaded method is fired).
Hope this work-around helps.
Regards,
Miroslav Nedyalkov
the Telerik team
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