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If you are using data binding with your controls that are part of the dockable bars that can be placed in floating mode you might need to update the BindingContext on the floating bar’s form so functionality that relies on updating the common BindingContext like for example DataGridView sorting propagated through multiple grids, can work […]

Some controls when hosted on dockable auto-hide bars are not displayed when bar is flying out of auto-hidden state DotNetBar uses the standard Windows API’s for bar animation when showing the bars from auto-hidden state. Some controls do not include full support for this functionality; in particular they do not handle the WM_PRINTCLIENT and/or WM_PRINT […]

Method below has been included now in BarUtilites library that ships with DotNetBar. You can use it instead of the code below. Use: BarUtilites.SetDockContainerVisible ________________________________________________________ Method below encapsulates all the logic that you need to hide the DockContainerItem objects on the bar and automatically hide/show the bar when last DockContainerItem object has been hidden/shown. v2 […]

Description: Office 2003 style is shown on menus but it is not visible on toolbars when running on Windows XP. Solution: The Bar.ThemeAware property which is set by default to true, indicates to DotNetBar to use Windows XP Themes when available for painting the visual elements. Since there is no Theme defined for menus the […]