F1026 File not found: 'DockForm.dcu'

Migrating to Delphi 2005/2006/2007/2009/2010 and higher ussues.
There is no DockForm.pas in Delphi 2005/2006/2007/2009/2010 sources but you can use it in your application.
DockForm with such a name appeared in Delphi 4/5, with name uDockForm was in Delphi 6/7.
This is a piece of humpbacked advice:
Just add "designide" in Project -> Options -> Packages -> Build with runtime packages.
The design time package with the code in it is needed, add to "require" section.
Such an advice is applied for research only purposes.
First: to run the application on a computer where Delphi is not installed, one will need the copy bpl-file is required.
Second: it is not allowed to deploy any of that code, copyright would be infringed. One should never be recompiling the code in the toolsapi source directory.

Stub unit
Unit can be used as a temporary measure, a palliative while migrating to new versions of Delphi
unit DockForm;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs;
type
  TDockableForm = class(TForm)
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  DockableForm: TDockableForm;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

end.


Stub DockForm.dfm
object DockableForm: TDockableForm
...
...
end

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