The September Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Cider Visual Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation is now available!

I'm new to .Net 3.0 so I may not be set up correctly and that may be the cause of this problem. Sept. CTP is my first install of .NET 3.0. I'm running on Windows Server 2003.

Here's the steps:

1) I create a new WPF Windows Application and get Window1.xaml.

2) I drag a DockPanel onto Window1.xaml. I get the DockPanel frame.

3) I drag a Button onto DockPanel but it does not become nested within the DockPanel container. In the XAML both DockPanel and Button are child elements of the Grid element. Button is not a child element of the DockPanel element in the XAML. I get the same behavior with StackPanel and controls I drag onto it. They do not become nested within the container panel.

I saw a demo webcast with Mark and Chris where Chris did the same steps and the Button automatically docked to a side. When I drag the Button within the DockPanel it never docks, it just gets dragged outside the DockPanel's frame.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Ron,

You're not doing anything wrong. This is currently not supported. We temporarily disabled the capability to design these types of containers. The demo you saw was using code that was not up to our current quality requirements. So we've disabled support for these containers until we get the user experience and the quality where we want it. You can always go to XAML view and add controls to these types of containers. Also, our Grid support is pretty good right now and you can often use the Grid to simulate the same type of Layout you would achieve with other containers.

Here's the blurb from our Release Notes:

"...you cannot manipulate controls inside StackPanel, DockPanel, or Canvas on the Designer. You can however update properties for these controls via XAML or the Property Browser."

hello,everyone:

I got a problem in RC1: When I design WPF with vs2005 RC1 ,I can't double-click the button at the wpf page to link the code-behind file. It was ok in june CTP,but not ok in RC1. Is somebody has the problem? will it fix in the Sept.CTP? thank you!