I am working with the samples and documentation to get familiar with the xamDockManager as I will be working with this assembly a lot in the future. I generally split my time 50/50 between working in Blend and VS2008.
In trying to do the tutorials, Blend will hang whenever I try to add a XamDockManager to a Grid. If I go into VS2008 and do the same, I can return to Blend and work with the controls I added in VS2008. However, Blend does not seem to recognize XamDockManager.Panes and there is no way to use the Blend menus to add Panes to a XamDockManager. Again, I can do this in VS2008, but if I return to Blend, perhaps to add some of my own user controls or use the designer as it is meant to be used, I am at a dead end because Blend if there is a tag for XamDockManager.Panes, Blend errors with "The member "Panes" is not recognized or is not accessible."
It seems that a reference is missing, but it does not make sense because it all works in VS2008.
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Thanks
It was a reference problem. I had a reference to Infragistics3.WPF.v7.2 in the project, not v8.1
Thanks.
Which version of Blend are you working with? I tried the following using Blend 2 and it seemed to work ok. I added references to the Infragistics3.Wpf and Infragistics3.Wpf.DockManager assemblies to the project references. I then dragged a XamDockManager from the Asset Library onto the design surface for the Window (which adds it to the default Grid contained within the Window). I can then select the XamDockManager, go to the Properties window, filter the properties to show the Panes collection (optional), click the "..." button and add a SplitPane, modify its Panes collection, etc.