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
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.
It was a reference problem. I had a reference to Infragistics3.WPF.v7.2 in the project, not v8.1
Thanks.