• When you press the pin button of auto hide window, it will hide away. Being mouseovered, it slides out and becomes visible.
• If you want your auto hide window to stay visible after it has slide out, just press the pin button.
• “Auto hide all” feature. If you have several docked control bars in a container and press the pin button while holding Ctrl key, all control bars residing in this container will be switched to auto hide mode.
• You can enable or disable animation when docking control bars are being switched to/from auto hide mode.
• There is an ability to control animation speed for auto hide bars.

User clicks "Auto Hide" button on the control bar caption and bar collapses to the side bar:

Hold mouse pointer on the "Properties" side button and "Properties" control bar is appear:

Visual Studio® 2005-style auto-hide buttons: