How to Dispose of a docked control?

[Thomas A. Anderson, Program Writer]

The user of my WinForms app has the opportunity to create a floating window at runtime. This window will be associated with the DockingManager. When the user clicks the close button ('X') on this dockable window, I want the window to be disposed of permanently [there would be no valid reason for the user to ever want to see the window again]. My question is how/when do I dispose of it? My current approach is to respond to the DockVisibilityChanged event which is fired when the user clicks the 'X'. I then call "arg.Control.Dispose()". This SEEMS to work -- but is this the correct approach? I've disposed of the window, but I'm not sure if I've disposed of the SyncFusion wrapper that makes the window dockable. Do I need to somehow inform the DockingManager that I've disposed of the window?

[Prakash S]

Hi,

If you intend to dispose off a dockable control, then it is necessary to call the DockingManager.SetEnableDocking(Control, bool) method on the particular control with a FALSE param before the dispose call. Instead of directly invoking SetEnableDocking from within the DockVisibilityChanged event handler, I would recommend that you keep track of all Controls that need to be disposed and then use some kind of an idle-time routine that examines and cleans up the hidden Controls periodically.

Prakash
Syncfusion