Docking library for C# [closed]

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I'm looking for a Docking library for using in the C# application. It can be designed for WPF, but I prefer WinForms applications. Of course, it should provide standart docking opportunities.
I'm going to use it in an application where user can control a huge amount of different processes which can appear and disappear dynamically during the application lifetime. Thus, the main criteria is the following: I should have opportunity to create docking windows and controls located on it dynamically and save the information about all docking windows positions in some file (content I can save using other way). After the application was relaunched it should restore all the docking windows in their states before the application close (and all of their content, but I can load it manually).
Unfortunately, I have found the only docking components library that contains all the required features - it's Telerik WinControls. But it's too slow for my purposes.

Please advise me a good docking library!

Answer 1

AvalonDock

It provides binding mechanisms for easy manipulation and MVVM and good serialization mechanics. It is the docking library used in SharpDevelop. Plus its free.

Answer 2

Actipro makes one

Actipro Docking Library

I have used the WPF version (not WinForms) of their docking library and it is pretty good. I'm not sure why you said the Telerik docking library was too slow.