Hey,

I have a number of user controls in my system that I want to add in floating panes in the dock manager programatically.  I want the floating pane to host the user control with the size that it appears in the designer (ie if I designed the user control 300x300 I want the user control to start as 300x300 when it's first shown).  I also want to be able to resize the content pane and have the user control resize with the content pane.

I had a solution that sort of works for this:

1.) I create a dummy Border and set its height and width to the height and width of the user control
2.) I set the user control's height and with to NaN.
3.) I add both the dummy Border and the user control to a new Grid panel.
4.) I set the Grid panel as the content of a new content pane.
5.) I add the content pane to a split pane with its initial location set to floating only.
6.) I add the split pane to the dock manager.

This solution is sort of a hack so if there's a better way to host user controls then I would rather use it.

Here's my problem with the above solution:  if I have a XamDataGrid set to fill a user control and I bind data to that XamDataGrid, the floating pane resizes to show all of the rows in the xam data grid and all of the columns in the xam data grid.  I would prefer that the floating pane only resize if the user explicitly resizes it.

This may be relevent: if I resize the pane at all before binding data to the XamDataGrid, then the pane won't resize when the XamDataGrid is bound.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks