MDI interface like in Visual Studio

[Al]

Is it possible, with reasonable efforts, to implement MDI interface
like in Microsoft Visual Studio itself (with all that dockable panels,
splitters, etc)?

[dotnetchic]

Re: MDI interface like in Visual Studio

Don't know about 2005, but 2003 did not provide these tools out of the
box (dockable panels, auto-hide bars, etc). I found several 3rd party
products that did, however, and we are currently using SharpUI for this
sort of functionality.

-SLC

[Luc]

Re: MDI interface like in Visual Studio

Data Dynamics offers solutions for VB6 or .NET environments. For VB6
they offer ActiveBar 3.0: http://www.datadynamics.com/activebar For
..NET they offer SharpUI for .NET: http://www.datadynamics.com/sharpui.
There are other controls on the market as well, but you might start
there. I believe that Visual Studio.NET 2005 offers these controls out
of the box however.

Hope this helps,
Luc