Here you’ll find all the new features that are coming with the new version of AvalonDock. Thanks to feedback of the community, I collected a lot of bug reports and requests of improvements. The reason of this post is that I would try to not miss something from your suggestions so that new release will contain as much fixes/features as possible.

This list of features can be also a valid reference for new users that are going to try and/or use AvalonDock in their projects.

  • Flyout panes are now animated using GDI+ clip regions. Result is a much more smooth experience.

  • Flyout panes covered floating windows when got focus. I corrected it. See following figures:

image_thumb37

 

  • New anchor images for Aero theme with context highlighting:

image_thumb38 

  • Sharpness of icons and images:

 image_thumb18

  • Documents floating like in VS2010:

image_thumb39 

 

 

 

  • New Contexts Menus on Documents/Floating Window

image_thumb26 image_thumb25

  • Added IsLocked property to documents to show the lock icon as shown above.
  • Added OnDocumentClosing/OnDocumentClosed event on DockingManager class to allow user code to cancel a document closing event.
  • New feature called DocumentNavigator. It’s like the WindowNavigator but it works only with documents and it doesn’t reorder documents by last activation time. End-user can access the DocumentNavigator window pressing Shift+Tab:

 image_thumb32

I added a lot of small fixes in almost every part of the project. btw most important regard layout serialization exception and overlay docking positioning.

If you think that there is a feature/bug fix that absolutely should be part of this release, for example for your project, post here your request maybe I already fixed it.

After releasing ver. 1.2 I’m planning to write a second tutorial for AvalonDock that exploree better all its functionalities.I’m about to produce a video tutorial too.

Many thanks to all for the great feedbacks and comments posted here on my blog and on codeplex.

Currently rated 5.0 by 3 people

  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
38 Comments