Change the Dock Panel View

• Jun 25, 2020

You can enable the Light dock panel style for ribbon-based and standard Print Preview forms using the DockingViewStyle property.

• When you add the Document Viewer control to the form, select this control and set the DockingViewStyle property to Light in the Property Grid.

  

• When you invoke the Print Preview from code (for instance, using the ReportPrintTool class), specify the DockingViewStyle property as shown below:

  C#

  using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
  using DevExpress.XtraBars.Docking2010.Views;
  
  // ...
  ReportPrintTool printTool = new ReportPrintTool(new XtraReport1());
  printTool.PreviewRibbonForm.PrintControl.DockingViewStyle = DockingViewStyle.Light;
  printTool.ShowRibbonPreview();
  

  VB.NET

  Imports DevExpress.XtraReports.UI
  Imports DevExpress.XtraBars.Docking2010.Views
  
  ' ...
  Dim printTool As ReportPrintTool = New ReportPrintTool(New XtraReport1())
  printTool.PreviewRibbonForm.PrintControl.DockingViewStyle = DockingViewStyle.Light
  printTool.ShowRibbonPreview()
  

The Light view provides one-pixel borders for all dock panels as shown on the following image:

When the DockingViewStyle is set to Default or Classic, the Print Preview looks as follows: