Hmmm... it's still not really clear to me how to transform an MDI child form into a docking toolbar... any suggestions?

 Thanks!

On your form, you can set TopLevel to False to allow the form to be a child of another control (you may also want to set FormBorderStyle to None so you don't see the normal form border). The you can dock the form with the following line of code:

this.ultraDockManager1.DockControls(new Control[{mdiChild}, DockedLocation.DockedLeft, ChildPaneStyle.TabGroup);

Hi Mike... thanks for the help! Ultimately I had to do the following, which is pretty much what you had recommended:

  myForm = new MyForm();
  myForm.TopLevel = false;
  Control[ dockControls = new Control[1] { myForm };
  this.ultraDockManager1.DockControls(dockControls,
      Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.DockedLocation.DockedLeft,
      Infragistics.Win.UltraWinDock.ChildPaneStyle.VerticalSplit);

  myForm.Show();

I just thought I'd share this in case anyone else was having a problem similar to the one I was having.

Side Note: 

One of the things that confused me was the TopLevel vs. TopMost property (the former not being in the property list in the IDE, so I was not initially aware of its existence), so I had to dig into the MSDN docs to figure out what that was about. It's been about two years since I've done any .NET/C#/WinForms coding so I'm having to re-learn quite a bit.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!

Glad to hear you got it working. 

evankstone said:

Side Note: 

One of the things that confused me was the TopLevel vs. TopMost property (the former not being in the property list in the IDE, so I was not initially aware of its existence), so I had to dig into the MSDN docs to figure out what that was about. It's been about two years since I've done any .NET/C#/WinForms coding so I'm having to re-learn quite a bit.

I guess this would cause some confusion if a person were unaware of the TopLevel property. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. In the future when I need to reference this property, I'll be sure to mention that it can only be accessed programmatically.

So now, getting back to basics, is there a step-by-step tutorial for someone who wants to start from scratch with docking? The API documentation is helpful, but I'm finding myself scratching my head trying to figure out how to set it up in the simplest fashion. Sorry to be dense.

Thanks!

Seems this link is currently broken.  When I click on it I get a nasty asp.net screen which states "Server Error in '/' Application."   Is there a newer link?

Thanks

I think those may be exactly what I need... and thanks for pointing out the Developer's Guide section. I think my table of contents was hidden and I totally missed it (plus a little ADD...  ).

Thanks, Mike!