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Is there a Ribbon UI Control available in VS 2008? Will it be available if i have office 2007 installed on the development and deployment machines?
EDIT: I would imagine that Microsoft would include the Ribbon UI control in VS 2008 as this is the way the UI of office is going to be moving forward also for the sake of consistency in Windows applications
Maybe give this library a shot?
EDIT: Actually, apparently Microsoft have released their own.
This may be old news to you now but there wasn't a selected answer so here you go:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff799534.aspx
You can download the source, examples, and assemblies for including a ribbon. The documentation can be found on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windows.controls.ribbon.aspx.
Simple example from a project that includes the 4.0 version of the RibbonControlsLibrary.dll
<Window x:Class="WpfRibbonApplication1.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:ribbon="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon;assembly=RibbonControlsLibrary"
Title="MainWindow"
x:Name="RibbonWindow"
Width="640" Height="480">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ribbon:Ribbon x:Name="Ribbon" Title="Ribbon Title">
<ribbon:Ribbon.HelpPaneContent>
<ribbon:RibbonButton SmallImageSource="Icon.ico" />
</ribbon:Ribbon.HelpPaneContent>
<ribbon:Ribbon.QuickAccessToolBar>
<ribbon:RibbonQuickAccessToolBar >
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="QATButton1"
SmallImageSource="Icon.ico" />
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="QATButton2"
SmallImageSource="Icon.ico" />
</ribbon:RibbonQuickAccessToolBar>
</ribbon:Ribbon.QuickAccessToolBar>
<ribbon:Ribbon.ApplicationMenu>
<ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenu SmallImageSource="Icon.ico">
<ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenuItem Header="Hello _Ribbon"
x:Name="MenuItem1"
ImageSource="Icon.ico"/>
</ribbon:RibbonApplicationMenu>
</ribbon:Ribbon.ApplicationMenu>
<ribbon:RibbonTab x:Name="HomeTab"
Header="Home">
<ribbon:RibbonGroup x:Name="Group1"
Header="Group1">
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="Button1"
LargeImageSource="Icon.ico"
Label="Button1" />
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="Button2"
SmallImageSource="Icon.ico"
Label="Button2" />
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="Button3"
SmallImageSource="Icon.ico"
Label="Button3" />
<ribbon:RibbonButton x:Name="Button4"
SmallImageSource="Icon.ico"
Label="Button4" />
</ribbon:RibbonGroup>
</ribbon:RibbonTab>
</ribbon:Ribbon>
</Grid>
</Window>
Produces something that looks like this:
Best Answer
Yes - it was included as part of the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 - at least for C++/MFC support anyhow.
See this similar question for more info.