Office 2007-Style Ribbon For WPF Applications
DevComponents has released a Ribbon control, based on the Office 2007 user interface, for Windows Presentation Foundation applications. For now its in private beta (though you can download a fully functional free trial), but it features:
- Unlimited color schemes
- Automatic intelligent Ribbon resizing
- Application menu support
- Contextual groups support
- Office 2007 controls included, like ComboBox, Check-box etc.
- KeyTips support
- Predefined color schemes Blue, Silver, Black
- Office 2007 style Galleries support
- Ribbon popup menu support
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) with customization
- Keyboard navigation
It’s fully compliant with the Office 2007 user interface guidelines, so if you are designing a professional WPF application, this looks like it would be an extremely easy way to get some professional UI into your app. Based on their price of $214 for a single developer license for their DotNetBar control (which does the same thing for richer applications), this can be written off in the amount of development/design time it saves, I’m guessing.
(via the Public Sector Developer blog)
