Regarding Navigation Panes

Hi ,

We need a control which is similar to the Navigation Pane of Microsoft
Outlook . The control needs to be developed using Xaml .Xaml has no
buildin control similar to this .

It should support the full pledged functionality to add
new items to the Pane on the fly . Any inputs for this solution is
highly appreciated .

The key is to think about in terms of what it logically does rather than how
it looks. Functionally, it is a tab control (or maybe a single-select
listbox) in that each category is a tab that allows for resizing of the
selected tab/listitem. All other aspects of it are visual and can be
implemented by overriding the Template property with a visual tree that
consists of a FlowPanel (or maybe a DockPanel) that has some added handlers
for drag n drop & renders its tabs/items as icons.

The key is to think about in terms of what it logically does rather than how
it looks. Functionally, it is a tab control (or maybe a single-select
listbox) in that each category is a tab that allows for resizing of the
selected tab/listitem. All other aspects of it are visual and can be
implemented by overriding the Template property with a visual tree that
consists of a FlowPanel (or maybe a DockPanel) that has some added handlers
for drag n drop & renders its tabs/items as icons.