Create Professional WPF Applications with world's first WPF ribbon control
Wpf-Ribbon™ is the fully compliant Office 2007 style Ribbon control developed from ground-up for Windows Presentation Foundation
We released world's first Ribbon control for Windows Forms back in 2005 and using that experience and new WPF platform we developed world's first WPF Ribbon control. Wpf-Ribbon™ is designed for developing professional business applications with WPF.
Partial list of Wpf-Ribbon™ features:
- Supports all required Office 2007 UI design elements. For details see below...
- Automatic intelligent Ribbon resizing
- Application menu support
- Contextual groups support
- Complete Galleries support
- Office 2007 styling for controls included, like ComboBox, StatusBar etc.
- KeyTips support
- Windows Vista Glass Support
- Predefined color schemes Blue, Silver, Black
- Create unlimited custom color schemes based on single color and one of our predefined color tables
- Ribbon popup menu support
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) with customization
- Excellent integration with WPF Routed Commands
- Right-To-Left (RTL) fully supported
- XBAP support, use it in your Click-Once XBAP applications
- Built-in support for Live Preview (see Knowledge Base for details)
- Advanced Window in Office 2007 style and exceptional custom styling support
This is screen-shot of our RibbonPad sample included with the control running on Windows Vista with Glass effect enabled. Notice the window title and contextual group support for Windows Vista Glass.
Here is RibbonPad sample included with control running on Windows XP with Silver color scheme:
Ribbon control with Black Office 2007 color scheme:
Wpf-Ribbon™ also supports Office 2007 inline and drop-down Galleries. Following images illustrate some of the extensive Gallery functionality included in Wpf-Ribbon™:
Custom Color Schemes
Wpf-Ribbon™ includes 3 predefined color schemes: Blue, Silver and Black that closely follow Office 2007 color schemes. While you can completely customize every visual aspect of Wpf-Ribbon™ the process of doing so is very time intensive. There are over 400 unique colors in Wpf-Ribbon™ color table.With Wpf-Ribbon™ we include our unique color scheme generation algorithms that allow you to create unlimited number of color schemes based on just single color you specify and one of our built-in color tables. Image below shows additional color tables created using single line of code. Sample included with the Wpf-Ribbon™ shows how to do that.
Wpf-Ribbon™ support for the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Guidelines
| Office 2007 UI Element | Required | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 54. Application Menu | ||
| 66. Displaying the Application Menu | Yes |  |
| 83. Application Menu Controls | Yes | |
| 120. Ribbon | ||
| 123. Tabs | Yes | |
| 125. Groups | Yes | |
| 126. Controls | Yes | |
| 160. Tabs | ||
| 171. Displaying Tabs | Yes | |
| 192. Minimizing the Ribbon | Optional | |
| 218. Tab Scrolling | Optional | |
| 252. Groups | ||
| 263. Displaying Groups | Yes | |
| 270. Group Labels | Yes | |
| 284. Group Visual States | Optional | |
| 287. Dialog Box Launchers | Yes | |
| 301. Dialog Box Launchers Visual States | Yes | |
| 312. Controls | ||
| 324. Displaying Controls | Yes | |
| 338. Control Layouts | Yes | |
| 359. Control Labels | Yes | |
| 386. Control Visual States | Yes | |
| 389. Control Behaviors | Yes | |
| 412. Ribbon Resizing | ||
| 439. Defining Groups for Ribbon Resizing | Yes | |
| 452. Group predefined variants | Yes | |
| 460. Collapsed Group Behavior | Yes | |
| 482. Defining Group Combinations for Ribbon Resizing | Yes | |
| 510. Group Horizontal Scrolling | Yes | |
| 530. Tabs Compression | Yes | |
| 543. Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) | ||
| 554. Displaying QAT | Yes | |
| 580. Ribbon right-click QAT support | Optional | |
| 580. Position QAT below the Ribbon | Optional | |
| 598. Customizing QAT | Optional | |
| 621. Displaying Many Controls in the QAT | Yes | |
| 640. Visual Appearance | ||
| 648. Application Button | Yes | |
| 669. Application Button Background/States | Yes | |
| 689. Quick Access Toolbar | Yes | |
| 725. Quick Access Toolbar Customize | Optional | |
| 744. Application Title Bar | Yes | |
| 744. Tabs | Yes | |
| 812. Tab States | Yes | |
| 835. Groups | Yes | |
| 878. Scrollbars | Optional | Coming soon... |
| 912. Status bar | Optional | |
| 927. Keyboard Access | ||
| 943. Displaying KeyTips | Yes | |
| 977. Dismissing KeyTips | Yes | |
| 984. Keyboard Navigation | Yes | |
| 994. KeyTip Size and Positioning | Yes | |
| 994. KeyTip Size and Positioning | Yes | |
| 1038. KeyTips for Collapsed Groups | Yes | |
| 1074. Contextual Tabs (Optional) | ||
| 1089. Selecting Contextual Tabs When Inserting a New Object | Yes* | |
| 1111. Showing Contextual Tabs After Selecting An Existing Object | Yes* | |
| 1129. Contextual Tab Labels | Yes* | |
| 1163. Galleries (Optional) | ||
| 1180. Displaying Galleries | Yes* | |
| 1195. Gallery inline/popup support | Yes* | |
| 1231. In-Ribbon Gallery Navigation Arrows | Yes* | |
| 1245. Displaying Expanded In-Ribbon Galleries | Yes* | |
| 1265. Resizing Expanded In-Ribbon Galleries | Optional | |
| 1303. Mini-Toolbar (Optional) | ||
| 1318. Displaying the Mini Toolbar | Yes* | Not implemented |
| 1347. Dismissing the Mini Toolbar | Yes* | Not implemented |
| 1369. Controls Displayed on the Mini Toolbar | Yes* | Not implemented |
| 1392. Displaying the Mini Toolbar with Context Menus | Yes* | Not implemented |
| 1303. ScreenTips/SuperTooltips (Optional) | ||
| 1434. Displaying ScreenTips | Yes* | |
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