We've spent the last several months working intensely on completely rebuilding the internals of our market-leading WPF Docking/MDI product.  This project is called "Docking/MDI vNext" and keeps the same general API surface, while providing even more advanced features in every area of the product, evolving it into a true best-of-breed docking tool window and MDI functionality solution.

Project Status

Great news… after several months of development and testing, Docking/MDI vNext is now out of beta and considered complete!  Check out our recent blog posts to see a list of several of the major features that are included in this new version.

The updates we made will be released as part of our WPF Controls 2016.1 offering that will likely officially roll out live in January or early February.  We'll have a full summary of the new features on the blog then.

Looking for 2016.1 Preview Testers

If you would like to get a preview build of 2016.1 and start working with everything now, please write our support address.  The major Docking/MDI vNext updates are considered code complete and stable at this point.  We have new and updated samples and documentation, updated Prism 6.1 compatibility, and a lot more.  The documentation gives detail on all new features and any breaking changes you might encounter.  We'd love to get some more users including it their apps and giving us some final feedback before a public release.

New maintenances of our WPF, Silverlight, and WinRT/XAML controls have been released and are now available for download.

These releases mostly focus on minor feature additions and bug fixes as we prepare to start work on our 2016.1 versions.  See these announcement posts for the detailed list of enhancements and updates:

• WPF Controls announcement
• Silverlight Controls announcement
• WinRT/XAML Controls announcement

We've spent the last several months working intensely on completely rebuilding the internals of our market-leading WPF Docking/MDI product.  This project is called "Docking/MDI vNext" and keeps the same general API surface, while providing even more advanced features in every area of the product, evolving it into a true best-of-breed docking tool window and MDI functionality solution.

Beta Testing Progress

A couple weeks ago we began the beta testing process for Docking/MDI vNext and thus far, it's been going very well.  The product has proven to be very stable and only a handful of minor tweaks and adjustments have been needed.  At this point, the product is considered feature-complete for its first shipping version.

We've been spending time during this beta testing period improving some samples and adding/updating lots of product documentation.  There are an enormous number of new features in vNext, so we want to make sure we cover everything.

What's Next

Our plan is to launch final 2015.1 version maintenance releases next week and then start transitioning internally to 2016.1 codebases.  Then we'll begin swapping in Docking/MDI vNext in place of the classic Docking/MDI product and will get all the related samples, documentation, etc. merged and ready to go.

We've spent the last several months working intensely on completely rebuilding the internals of our market-leading WPF Docking/MDI product.  This project is called "Docking/MDI vNext" and keeps the same general API surface, while providing even more advanced features in every area of the product, evolving it into a true best-of-breed docking tool window and MDI functionality solution.

Call for Beta Testers

We've been posting on our blog about many of the major new features coming your way in vNext.  We're pleased to announce that all of those features are now code-complete and we are preparing for a private beta test.

We already have received numerous beta tester requests.  If you have written us, we will be contacting you in the next several days!

If you are an existing customer and haven't yet contacted us about being a beta tester, please write our support address, tell us how you plan to use the vNext beta in your applications, and we'll get you signed up into the beta program.  We look forward to hearing from you!

by Bill Henning (Actipro)

What We Accomplished

In this quarter, we've primarily been focused on code development of our Docking/MDI vNext version.  This has been a massive undertaking since we've been reworking nearly all of the internals, while keeping most of the public API the same, to improve the design and add an enormous number of features that have been requested by our customers.  The update log for this version is now many pages long and enables Docking/MDI to support all the UI features you find in the most premier modern IDEs like Visual Studio.  You're going to love it!

We also have been working on porting the WinRT/XAML controls to UWP.

What’s Coming Next

We are close to the end of the code development stage for Docking/MDI vNext, which means we're also nearing the beta testing phase.  We can't wait to get it into your hands.  If you would like to help beta test this new version, please write our support address.  Keep watching this blog for more development news. 

We plan to launch the UWP version of our WinRT/XAML controls in the next few weeks too.

Blog Post List

Control Product Development and Releases

• WPF and WinRT Controls Updated for Visual Studio 2015 Compatibility

Docking/MDI vNext Development

• Docking/MDI vNext - MVVM Default Dock Locations
• Docking/MDI vNext - MVVM Property Improvements
• Docking/MDI vNext - How Should We Improve MVVM Support?
• Docking/MDI vNext - Tabbed MDI New Tab Button
• Docking/MDI vNext - New Tabbed MDI Features