Following are some of the main features of DockingTab that you may find useful:

• Docking and Floating Tabs
  DockingTab provides docking and floating behavior, where the whole control or individual pages (tabs) can be torn off and automatically docked to one of the other sides of the form, to another DockingTab control, or floated in a separate tool window.
• Auto-hiding
  DockingTab supports auto-hiding mode when placed inside a CommandDock control. This means tabs can be minimized to any edge of the container and slide in/out when the user clicks on them. To implement this behavior just set the AutoHiding property to True. To allow users to turn this on themselves set the CanAutoHide property.
• Tab Behaviors
  You have control over the behavioral properties for docking, floating, closing and reordering tab pages. It gives the end-users the ability to close and move tabs with the CanCloseTabs and CanMoveTabs properties.
• Tab List
  DockingTab lets the users to show all the available tabs in a drop-down list so that the users can quickly navigate. This can be done by setting the ShowTabList property to True.
• Tab and Text Layout
  Users can select from various tab and text alignment options, so that they can be fit into different application user interfaces. Learn more about tab and text layout in this topic.
• Hide Tabs
  DockingTab lets the user simply hide the tabs of DockingTab to create multi-page forms such as Wizards. The benefit of using DockingTab is that you get full, drag-and-drop design-time support for each tab page, so you can easily have multiple forms contained in one.
• Docking Styles
  Users can specify the docking style, and set it to Default, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012. Learn more about this in Appearance and Styling.