State and status of AvalonDock, options to AvalonDock

Question

I'm working on a WPF interface that could use AvalonDock, or a similar dockable windows interface. My understanding is that AvalonDock is a pretty good dockable window interface, but I'm a bit worried about the ongoing status of it. Is it honestly active? Many comments on the site discussion and bug tracker mention the developer being too busy, i.e.

I've decided to shuthdown my blog site (youdev.net) as I'm too busy for now to update it with regularity. Anyway I created a getting started tutorial for AvalonDock (1.3) that can be accessed from here. I'll try to answer any question you may have into the discussion section.

And there are a number of "Is this still active?" questions in the discussion section.

Thus, my question: Is anyone actually using this in production software? What issues are there with it that would be problematic.

Likewise, if anyone has pointers to a decent dockable window library, free or commercial, I'd be interested in taking a look.

Edit: I'm using C# and .NET 4 in VS2010.

Answer 1

As much research as I did on AvalonDock before coming here, I still found something afterward, specifically Sofa, which is a wrapper for AvalonDock making it easier to work with. Sofa was last updated less than a month ago, so activity- at least at the moment- seems high.

This, and some of the comments from the WPF Docking Libraries question makes me think that AvalonDock might be just stable enough, but that Actipro is a good choice if we need support and a commercial project.

I'll mark this as wiki since the "similar to" quotient is really high, but it might still help someone.

Answer 2

I wrote an article that might be of use to you, it demonstrates one way of integrating AvalonDock into an MVVM application:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/239342/AvalonDock-and-MVVM