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SandDock is a powerful window layout and management engine designed to quickly and easily add advanced document paging and dockable windows functionality to your applications. Its components provide a modern replacement for the standard Windows MDI paradigm and an advanced dockable windows system that supports complex layout systems, collapsible control groups and intuitive redocking tools.

The unparalleled design-time support of SandDock means it only takes a few clicks of the mouse to get dockable windows set up and working in your form. All the hard work is taken care of, leaving you to configure your GUI the best way possible - visually. You can perform window docking at design time just like you can at runtime, making SandDock the easiest tool of its kind to configure and integrate.

Key features of SandDock for Windows Forms:

• Designed to completely replace the traditional MDI display if used.

• Expose events to keep track of the active document and alter available commands accordingly.

• Documents can be dragged anywhere else in the window to "split" views between documents.

• 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.

• Collapsible control groups to conserve screen real-estate.

• Easy Layout Serialization

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