LayoutGroup.Orientation Property

Gets or sets the child item’s orientation within the group (horizontal or vertical). This is a dependency property.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Docking

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Docking.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Docking

Declaration

C#

public Orientation Orientation { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property Orientation As Orientation

Property Value

Type	Description
Orientation	The child item’s orientation within the group.

Remarks

The following code sample creates LayoutRoot and TopGroup LayoutGroups and sets their Orientation property to Vertical and Horizontal:

XAML

<Window ...
  xmlns:dxdo="http://schemas.devexpress.com/winfx/2008/xaml/docking">
  <Grid>
    <dxdo:DockLayoutManager>
      <dxdo:LayoutGroup x:Name="LayoutRoot" Orientation="Vertical">
        <dxdo:LayoutGroup x:Name="TopGroup" Orientation="Horizontal">
          <dxdo:LayoutPanel Caption="Toolbox"/>
          <dxdo:DocumentGroup>
            ...
          </dxdo:DocumentGroup>
        </dxdo:LayoutGroup>

        <dxdo:TabbedGroup>
          <dxdo:LayoutPanel Caption="Solution Explorer"/>
          <dxdo:LayoutPanel Caption="Properties"/>
        </dxdo:TabbedGroup>
      </dxdo:LayoutGroup>
    </dxdo:DockLayoutManager>
  </Grid>
</Window>

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the Orientation property.

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XAML

wpf-dock-layout-manager-limit-layout-group-customization-at-runtime/CS/DXDockingForLayoutPurposes/MainWindow.xaml#L21

<dxd:DockLayoutManager>
    <dxd:LayoutGroup Name="generalLayoutGroup" GroupBorderStyle="GroupBox" ShowCaption="True" Caption="General" Orientation="Vertical">
        <dxd:LayoutControlItem Name="incidentNumber" Caption="Incident Number" VerticalAlignment="Top">

wpf-dock-layout-manager-use-events-to-dynamically-customize-context-menus/CS/DockManager_MenuCustomization/Window1.xaml#L13

ShowingMenu="dockManager1_ShowingMenu">
<dxdo:LayoutGroup x:Name="rootGroup" Orientation="Horizontal">
    <dxdo:LayoutGroup x:Name="layoutGroup3" Orientation="Vertical">

wpf-docklayoutmanager-use-services-that-implement-the-idocumentmanagerservice/CS/DXDocumentUIServiceSample/MainWindow.xaml#L34

<dxdo:DockLayoutManager>
    <dxdo:LayoutGroup Orientation="Horizontal">
        <dxdo:LayoutPanel Caption="Users">

wpf-docklayoutmanager-move-a-layout-item-in-code/CS/DockLayoutManager_MoveItem/Window1.xaml#L12

<dxdo:DockLayoutManager.LayoutRoot>
    <dxdo:LayoutGroup Name="Root" Orientation="Vertical">
        <dxdo:LayoutControlItem>

wpf-docklayoutmanager-dock-panels-in-code/CS/DockPanelInCode_Ex/Window1.xaml#L15

dxcore:ThemeManager.ThemeName="Office2019Colorful">
<dxdo:LayoutGroup x:Name="rootGroup" Orientation="Horizontal">
    <dxdo:LayoutPanel