The operation of the docking windows is designed to closely mimic the way that Visual Studio 2010 Beta operates and not the current VS2008. So if the following does not look or feel quite right that is most likely because you have not played around with VS2010. Each docking window has a drop down button that when pressed gives a list of possible docking options. Like this…
The Close and Auto Hide options are just alternate ways of performing the same actions as the pin and close buttons that were already described in the last post. Float and Dock options are fairly obvious and switch the individual page between being a floating window and docked back again against a control edge. Tabbed Document is used to move the page into the filler control that occupies the client area of the control. Under VS2010 this means the page is moved to the editing area so you can see that page alongside code editing or design surface windows. If we select the above Float option we get the following modeless windows appear…
You probably think the window looks a little odd. Under VS2010 the appearance and operation of the window has changed to make it easier to use docking windows on multi-monitor machines. If you double click the window caption in VS2008 it would restore the contents back to be docked windows. With VS2010 and Krypton Docking it maximizes the window. This allows you to place several pages inside the floating window and then maximize it on a different monitor in order to make use of multiple monitors effectively.
