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How can I make my main frame’s menubar daockable but disable user to hide it (or close it when it is floating)?
I need to avoid situation when user closes menu all toolbars - there is no way how to show them again in this case.
Thank you!

If you want the end user NOT to be able to hide a toolbar, you need to do two things:

1) Remove the Close button of the toolbar by overriding the OnNcAreaButtonsReinitialize() method like as follows:

class CNoCloseMenuControlBar : public CExtMenuControlBar
{
protected:    
 virtual void OnNcAreaButtonsReinitialize()
 {
  INT nCountOfNcButtons = NcButtons_GetCount();
  if( nCountOfNcButtons > 0 )
   return;
#if (!defined __EXT_MFC_NO_TAB_CONTROLBARS)
  NcButtons_Add( new CExtBarNcAreaButtonAutoHide(this) );
#endif
  NcButtons_Add( new CExtBarNcAreaButtonMenu(this) );
 }
};

2) The user can show and hide toolbars by toggling the corresponding menu items in the Prof-UIS build-in menus. So you should also remove the toolbar’s item from these menus:

m_wndMenuBar.m_bAppearInDockSiteControlBarPopupMenu = false;

This information is applicable to the menu bar too. Please note if the menu bar is hidden, you can always show it by pressing and releasing the ALT key.