The xamDockManager has an AddDocument method that you can use when the Content is a DocumentContentHost. It will create a ContentPane with the specified Header and Content and add that to the TabGroupPane that contains the active document just as VS opens a document in the tab group containing the active document when you open a file. That method returns the ContentPane so you can do other initialization or activate it (using the Activate method).

You are indeed right not to understand me, I was talking rubbish!

I was talking rubbish because I meant the XamDockManager.

You've got dockable windows and the document area.

in the document area, just like visual studio 2008 you can have various types of documents open (eg in visual studio a source file, a window designer, a project properties window).

So what I'd like to do is somewhere in another file define the different types of document windows lets say my app has customer records and I've defined a document "customer"

I'd do something like this is completely made up code...

//Create an instance of my pre-designed "document" and load the customer into it
Customer myCustomerPage = new Customer(CustomerID)
//Add the customer dcument to the documenthost
myXamDockPanel.DocumentHostPanel.Add(myCustomerPage)

Problem being that I don't know how to define a reusable document (I may want to have 10 different customers open in tabs in the document host), and that I don't know how to add it programatically to the dockpanel. (this is what I need explaining)

- Anthony