My application does not have multiple documents. So I do not need the tab shown in LayoutDocumentPane. I found that it can be customized by using style here. http://avalondock.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Document%20tab%20restyling
But it seems to be over complicated. Is there any simple way of doing this ?
In avalondock 1.x there is a property that does just what you need. Its called
DocumentPane.ShowHeader.It does not (yet?) exist on 2.x
If you want to modify avalondock to do what you need, I submitted a patch to the project that adds the feature.
Its included in this ticket: http://avalondock.codeplex.com/workitem/15626