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A user interface design in which panels are arranged inside a container. Each docked panel is attached to another panel or a side of the container.

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How to use DockStyle.Fill for standard controls in WPF?

I'm used from windows forms, that I create a panel, place controls inside it and give them DockStyle.Fill to max out their size to the surrounding panel. In WPF I want to have the same. I have a TabControl and I want its size to fill as much of the…
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How to control docking order in WinForms

I'm looking for a way to control the order in which the items dock to the top of my control. I've noticed as I add children to my control (in the designer, or through code), the newest child is always at the top. I'd like for the newer children to…
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How do you do AppBar docking (to screen edge, like WinAmp) in WPF?

Is there any complete guidance on doing AppBar docking (such as locking to the screen edge) in WPF? I understand there are InterOp calls that need to be made, but I'm looking for either a proof of concept based on a simple WPF form, or a…
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What are good docking frameworks for Java/Swing?

I'm looking for a good lightweight Java docking framework. I know that Netbeans and Eclipse can be used as RCP, but I'm looking for something a little bit more lightweight.
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What is the difference between Dock and Anchor

I have a windows form which have a lot of controls in that(Listbox,Groupbox,Combobox,TextBox,ListBox etc). I need to resize and arrange the controls automatically whenever the form's size gets changed. I need to know the difference between Dock and…
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Is it possible to dock the "Find/Replace" window in Eclipse?

I could have sworn I saw it once before in a screencast where someone had the find/replace window docked in their Eclipse environment. However looking through the list of options in "Window > Show" the closest thing I can find is the Search…
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Docking Window inside another Window

I have a winform application (.NET 2.0 C#). From this application, I want to start another process (another winform application) and dock it to my window (or at least make it look like it is docked). So far, I can only find information about…
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How to make a WPF ListView no taller than its contents but fit to the window with other controls?

I'm trying to arrange a WPF UI as follows: At top of the window are some controls of self-determining height (effectively docked to the top of the window, but as tall as they want to be). Beneath those controls is a ListView. The ListView may…
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IDEA dock window layout

Is it possible to change the way that docked tool windows in IDEA are laid out? Currently, the bottom most window takes all the horizontal space, and the left and right windows do not take all the vertical space (because of the bottom window). Is it…
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Adobe Flex vs Silverlight

This is not a pure technical question, but I believe answers will help the RIA community. We are a software development company working on development of a stock trading product. We chose to use Adobe Flex (in mid of 2008) due to its browser…
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How to dock to the top and the left

With An anchor I can write the following line: myControl.Anchor = (AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left); And it will anchor myControl to the left and the top. Why can't I do the following: myControl.Dock = (DockStyle.Top | DockStyle.Left); I can…
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Stream and Play audio from android application to any available Speaker like A2DP,Car speakers etc

From my android application I want to stream audio to any available speaker like A2DP speaker ,docking speakers or car speaker. for doing this I want to use Bluetooth connection and stream over Bluetooth connection... I saw following links On…
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Window docking advice for Mac

I'm from a Windows programming background when writing tools, but have been programming using Carbon and Cocoa for the past year. I have introduced myself to Mac by, I admit it, hiding from UI programming. I've been basically wapping my OpenGL…
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Implementing a multidock window system (like blend, visual studio) in WPF

How would you go about to implement a docking toolbox windowing system as seen in Expression Blend where you can dock toolbox windows in a lot of ways beneat each other, overlapping as tabs or as floating top level windows. My system should behave…
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Can I forward keyboard shortcuts to a lync conversation window docked in a WPF window

I am working with Lync 2013 SDK and WPF in a way to add a toolbar to the Lync conversation window. I did dock the Lync conversation window in a panel inside a WindowFormHost pretty much following this tutorial…
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