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WPF Dock Windows & MDI
Visual Studio UI - Create Microsoft Visual Studio inspired Dock Window interfaces with ease. Dock hints and built-in context menus make docking operations straightforward and transparent. Includes built-in support for auto-hide windows, splitters and dock hints.
Floating and Auto-Hide Panels - Dock panels replicate the auto-hide functionality introduced by Visual Studio dock windows. In this mode, an Auto-Hide Panel is automatically minimized when the mouse pointer leaves its region (assuming that controls within it do not have input focus).
Save/Restore Layouts - You can save information on docking layout to a XML file, stream or system registry, and then restore it. This information may include the visibility, position, state and size of dock panels.