**I'm using AvalonDock 2.0**

I feel that it's supposed to be pretty basic but the documentation doesn't say a thing and I've played around for 2 hours to try and figure it out. So, I'm sorry if this is too simple.

I want exactly what the title says. The documentation mentions how to make a bottom side panel but only an auto-hidden one, which is not what I want.

I tried to toggle it's autohide in code-behind but the height wasn't affected so every single time the application starts the user has to drag it up to see the panel's content.