Vista - WinFx Splitter control?

I searched this newsgroup and didn't find much except some comment on WinForm
integration. Is there a way to add splitters to a WinFx GUI without WinForm
integration? I would hope so.

Also, what about dockable floating windows?

While there are some pretty powerful controls, there seems to be some basic
functionality missing in WinFx. I would not expect to have to buy third
party tools in order to get this functionality.
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Nick

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Hello,

nickdu wrote:
> I searched this newsgroup and didn't find much except some comment on WinForm
> integration. Is there a way to add splitters to a WinFx GUI without WinForm
> integration? I would hope so.

Use a Grid for your layout, and then add a GridSplitter in one of the cells.


> Also, what about dockable floating windows?

Not without you doing some programming. It's not very complicated to do,
though.

> While there are some pretty powerful controls, there seems to be some basic
> functionality missing in WinFx. I would not expect to have to buy third
> party tools in order to get this functionality.

Mostly, the controls are available, but you need to find them (see the
GridSplitter example). WPF is a brand new framework, and pretty much
everything you learned in WinForms can be happily forgotten :-)

One control is notoriously missing: DataGrid. There is a free one by
XCeed, a paying one by Infragistics, and one in the works at Microsoft.
No release date announced however.

See my list of resources:
http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/a...es-online.aspx

HTH,
Laurent
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