I was wondering if anyone out there knew the correct or recommended method for destroying panes?  The library does not seem to be very clear in this regard.  The problem I have posted may be a bug in my code, but I would like to address theoretical issue here as well.

Here is my scenario.

Docking Panes and their child windows are created dynamically.

I create a new pane by calling PaneManager::CreatePane().

I create a new CFrameWnd on the heap, then calling CFrameWnd::Create() and passing it a CRuntimeClass for the Doc and View.  I do this on a user action to create a new pane. 

Then I call CXTPDockingPane::Attach() in the OnDockingPane Notify() function.

Given this scenario, what is is the recommended method for removing and destroying a Docking Pane from the Manager and Docking Pane Layout List?

Keep in mind that I want to be able to dynamically create and destroy panes, and I want to destroy a pane and its associated child wnd when I close the pane.

Right now, I am trying to do this in response to the XTP_DPN_CLOSEPANE message.  (or possibly the XTP_DPN_ACTION::xtpPaneActionClosed message).  I try to call PaneManager::DestroyPane(), but I get a debug assertion failure,  the framework routes to the DockingPaneLayout::DestroyPane() function, and then at the end it calls the CCmdTarget::InternalRelease() function.  Here I where I get the failure, on this line:

DWORD CCmdTarget::InternalRelease()

{

ASSERT(GetInterfaceMap() != NULL);

...

I have tried simply getting pointers the stack and list of panes from the manager, and then manually removing them from the data structures.  This seems to work, however, I still have no easy way of destructing the pane, since it has a protected destructor.

 Do I have a bug, or am I not doing this correctly?

It may also be helpful to know that I am attempting to save and restore layouts.