How to get "Auto-Hide" like in IDE

I have a treeview (which I can put on a panel if it is required) which represents a menu of options, and I want to auto-hide it like the properties or tools or any of the other panels that are in the VS.NET IDE.

Does anyone have any code or ideas or links or anything?

I wasn't sure what to search for - but I am sure this has been asked before.

use the Magic Tools...but i cant remember the site..anyone?

I think VBCrazycoder is talking about this

http://www.dotnetmagic.com/index.html

You could also create a custom control and probably extend the listview control. Maybe someone can come up with an example.

Hope that helps

Sweet! I will check it out - but that takes the fun out of developing it yourself!

if you want something that slides on to the screen ( eg : a panel with controls on it ) you can do this :

VB Code:

Dim i As Integer
' //// referenced to the whole form ^^^
'/////
'//// add a panel to the form , but make it's so it's right is
'//// at 0 , ( eg it's hidden to the left of your form.
'////
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim x As Integer
        i = Panel1.Left
        For x = Panel1.Left To 0
            Panel1.Left = x
            'Threading.Thread.Sleep(1) '// make it slide slowly by using Sleep.
        Next
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Panel1.Left = i '/// hide the panel.
 
    End Sub

Thanks for the code, I will try it. I think it will take me a week to figure out what the Magic Install code is doing and how to get an "Auto-hide" panel! Would have been nice to just be able to drag a panel onto the form and just set a property to true to make it autohide. :D

I had bad experience with sliding forms and autohide :D . I was doing sorta quickbar but the main problem was flickering ...so I quit it...lol :D