How to disable docking but use pin/unpin feature?

[Ram]

I have a Telerik.WinControls.UI.Docking.ToolWindow added to RadDock. I want to use the pin/unpin feature and not the docking feature. I want to disable the contextmenu and not allow user to move around the ToolWindow as well. How do I acheive it?

[Nadya | Tech Support Engineer]

Hi, Ram,

AllowedDockState property gives you the ability to determine the available dock states per ToolWindow. There are several options for this property that can be combined by bitwise operations. More information you can find here: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/controls/dock/object-model/alloweddockstates 

In order to use the autohide function by clicking on the pin/unpin button you can use the following code snippet:

this.toolWindow1.AllowedDockState = AllowedDockState.Docked | AllowedDockState.AutoHide;

According to the context menu. RadDock uses ContextMenuService. Each context menu request is passed to the service, which on its hand creates the appropriate menu items and raises several events, which allows users to modify existing items, add their own or even cancel the request. When handling the ContextMenuDisplaying event you are able to cancel showing the context menu for the toolwindow by using e.Cancel=true. More information is available here: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/controls/dock/architecture-and-features/using-the-contextmenuservice 

I hope this helps. If you have other questions do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,
Nadya
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[Ram]

It worked. Thanks Nadya.