SandDock Features

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	Specifications
	Supported Operating Systems Windows 98, ME Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Supported Development Environments Visual Studio .NET 2002 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual Studio .NET 2005

Through its advanced and flexible layout system, the SandDock controls are able to offer a great deal of features to help you configure a cutting-edge user interface in your application.

• Three renderers are provided that mimic recent versions of Visual Studio and Office.
• Rendering can be completely customised to create your own distinctive look and feel.
• Translucent docking hints offer a completely new, intuitive feedback mechanism during docking.
• Advanced designer integration means you can optionally design your dockable windows separately, like you would a UserControl, then add instances of them to your layout later.

Dockable Windows

• Complex window layouts like the ones possible in Visual Studio are easy to achieve.
• Controls or groups of controls can be "torn off" to form floating windows.
• Intuitive docking controls to perform floating and redocking operations.
• Programmatic access to helper methods to dock, undock and redock windows.
• Collapsible control groups to conserve screen real-estate.
• No coding necessary - all window layout is done at design time just like you would at runtime.
• Any control or group of controls can be dragged anywhere else in the docked hierarchy.

Tabbed Documents

• Designed to completely replace the traditional MDI display.
• Wraps the SandDock docking and layout hierarchies in to a tabbed document management system.
• Exposes events to keep track of the active document and potential document closures.
• Documents can be dragged anywhere else in the window to "split" views between documents.
• Provides access to the standard ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab methods for switching windows.
• Scrolling buttons for smooth access to document tabs that are out of view.
• Renderers allows your document tabs to mimic either Visual Studio or OneNote.
• The TabControl component provides the attractive tabbed document rendering SandDock offers wrapped in a simple TabControl, ideal for users who simply want a set of tabs and not the full tabbed document functionality.