TabbedDocument Layout Not Restoring

Hi

Having read several posts here on the subject I'm now tearing my hair out on this.

First off, using 3.0.0.1

I'm using SandDockManager.GetLayout() and .SetLayout(). The SerializeTabbedDocuments property is set to true.

I'm instantiating TabbedDocuments and assigning each one a Guid.NewGuid and setting the PersistLayout property to true.

The resultant serialization xml appears to be correct as far as I can tell (see attached - i have 4 dock windows of which 2 hidden and 4 tabbed documents).

However, when I restore the layout by calling SandDockManager.SetLayout(), the dock controls are restored correctly but the documents are not.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here, this is driving me nuts.

Aside from this, SandDock is by far the best control* I've ever used and I've used a LOT.

* - documentation is meh tho!

Try assigning fixed guids (not using .NewGuid which generates a new 'random' guid) to your documents.
Then make sure the documents exist (are created) when you restart your app, and then restore the layout.

Yves

deathangel is correct: assigning random Guids to your windows on startup won't help at all. The point of the Guid property is that it uniquely identifies windows. So it needs to be the same from one run of the application to the next.

Sorry, thought I responded. Got it all working rather brilliantly now subclassing both the Manager and TabbedDocument classes to provide document layout persistence and closing in response to business objects being deleted etc.

Never any misunderstanding about Guids, I just didn't quite grasp that the TabbedDocuments had to be manually recreated before calling SetLayout().

For some reason I thought that SetLayout would reinstantiate the TabbedDocuments on its own and that I should then enumerate them and correlate against my own persistence data to recreate their contents/titles.

Documentation not very clear!