Office ribbon for WPF 4.0

Question

It is rumoured that WPF 4.0 would deliver us an out-of-the-box Office Ribbon.

A new WPF Ribbon Control will be available for download shortly after the release of WPF 4. [1]

Now my internet and MSDN search turned out to be fruitless, and as far as I know, it would be release after the .NET 4.0 framework would launch. My search lead me to the Office plugin ribbon controls and the CTP prereleased before the release of .net 4.0 with a limited featureset.

So my question is: does anyone know if and when Microsoft will release this Office Ribbon with the framework? Or if they don't a nice press note saying that they ditched the project.

Also if anyone has experience with the Ribbon I'm talking about, will this Ribbon work in a partial trusted environment?

My thanks will be ever lasting! ;)

Brian Triplett Brian Triplett · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-15T15:06:43

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: Example ribbon

Office ribbon for WPF 4.0

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