That's a good idea. I'll try that. That pane will have to not allow grouping of other panes and I will need to remove it's title.

It would be nice to be able to just do somthing like

DockingPaneManager.ClientArea.Handle = MyForm.hWnd

I used to use ActiveBar2 and that's kindof how it worked.

Sorry so big... I should have shrunk it down some.

The client area is the space around which a docking pane can dock.

I want to dock a form there based on the users selections and the mode of the application.

This will allow me to program all of the functionality of the different pieces of my app in different forms.

What you're describing is how to attach a form to a Docking Pane.

I know how to do that.  I want to attach a form to the Client Area of the Docking Pane Manager.

I still haven't found an example for doing this.  Any ideas?

Thanks for the reply though.

Both the DockingPanes samples (SDI and MDI) contains similar code in frmMain for the DockingPaneManager_AttachPane event.

Private Sub DockingPaneManager_AttachPane(ByVal Item As XtremeDockingPane.IPane) 'If Form not create yet.     If arrPanes(Item.Id) Is Nothing Then         Set arrPanes(Item.Id) = New frmPane         arrPanes(Item.Id).BackColor = arrColor(Item.Id)     End If         ' Attach Form to Pane     Item.Handle = arrPanes(Item.Id).hwnd     End Sub

Basically, create your dockingpanes in the form_load event. Once a pane is about to be displayed, the DockingPaneManager_AttachPane event is fired. Set the Item.Handle to the hWnd of the form/control which you wish to appear inside the docking pane

SuperMario wrote: The form can be attached in the Attach event (See DockingPane samples, this is none in both of them).  If you are using both docking panes and command bars, you can use the CommandBars_Resize event.

I'll look in the samples.  Do you recall what sample project showed an example of this?

I am using CommandBars with the Docking Pane Manager. I will switch to using the CommandBars_Resize event.

Thanks to all for your feedback.