When distributing an application that uses Xceed Docking Windows for WinForms, the assemblies that make up Xceed Docking Windows for WinForms, the Xceed.DockingWindows.dll and Xceed.DockingWindows.Layout.dll assemblies, must be distributed along with your application. These assemblies must either be installed into the global cache or in the same directory as the executable.
In order to install an into the global cache, Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 must be used. This is the recommended and most common way to add assemblies to the global cache and it provides reference counting of assemblies in the global cache, plus other benefits.
For more information in regards to installing assemblies into the global cache, please refer to the Installing an into the Global Cache topic of the .NET Framework Developer's Guide.
For more information regarding the deployment of .NET applications, please refer to the Deploying applications topic of the .NET Framework Developer's Guide.