In this post, you say, "You will need to save another file with the layout file. This file will indicate to you which controls should be initialized and added to the form before loading the dock manager's layout file."

What controls need to be saved?  I've tried this, saving the coltrol names, and re-initializing those same inds of controls with their previous names ('System.Windows.Forms.Panel' controls that were used) when the dock manager's 'SaveAs…' was called.

Doesn't seem to work, though.

Is there an example of how this should work?

Pat