MS officially released MS Ribbon for WPF. This release doesn't support theming, it comes with a default blue theme, Office 2010 look&feel. Office 2010 has a button that allows users to hide/unhide the ribbon, but the released version of ribbon doesn't has one. Is it implemented ? How can I add one?
Can you doubleclick a tab to minimize the ribbon in the new release?
Kinda hidden, but been that way since office 2007, and appears to work in Windows 7 paint, etc.
When I right click on the ribbon, I get the option to Minimize the Ribbon, which mostly hides the ribbon. Is that what you're talking about? Here's a screencast to demonstrate. I'm using the latest Ribbon release.
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I want to create ribbon tab (flat style - look like File Explorer Windows 8.1 and Office 2013) in my windows form C# project. Please help me! I try using OfficeRibbon with dll file (https://officeribbon.codeplex.com/) but it only it only Office 2007 Ribbon. Office 2013 is flat style but it doesn't work.
Use DevExpress Ribbon .This Tool Provide Ribbon form MDI with document manager and lot of customized controls and Skins for windows form .
The OfficeRibbon control's office 2013 style is almost there, straight out of the box:
You might need to apply your own theme to get it similar in color to Windows 8. More on theming HERE
In VSTO, I'm using VS 2012 with Excel 2013, and the Ribbon area I create with an addin looks so plain vanilla ( font is not able to be in bold etc..) It would be great to extend the look and feel and functionality of this along with tying in Event handlers for status updates.
Does anyone have any experience with extending VSTO, any samples, links that you found very useful ( yes I spent a lot of time on google already.)
The style of the Ribbon is controlled by Office. There is not anything you can do to change the format and styling of the fonts. The options you do have are size of the controls (e.g. buttons) & their icons.
It's also possible to use Office events to update the appearance of the ribbon.
If you have a specific scenario in mind, I'd be happy to help.
In the meantime, here are some helpful links:
Ribbon Extensibility Overview
How to: Customize the Ribbon
VSTO - Create a custom tab for the Office Ribbon in Excel (Visual Studio 2012)
Can you help me please finding themes for the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF October 2010 release?
I want to change the default blue theme.
This is the best Fluent Ribbon control I know for WPF
Supports everything (and re-styling, black/blue/silver are included so far)
There are no themes for the Microsoft Ribbon for WPF October release, you have to come up with your own styles.
I am using the latest WPF Ribbon control downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2bfc3187-74aa-4154-a670-76ef8bc2a0b4&displaylang=en
In Windows XP, the Ribbon application window’s title bar looks like from Windows 98… or like from console window. How can I improve the appearance of tittle bar.
Answered by a Microsoft Consultant:
The RibbonWindow ships with three templates as of the October 2010 release - Classic, Aero Basic, and Aero with glass. On XP's Luna theme, we fall back to displaying the Classic look for the RibbonWindow. It should be fairly easy to retemplate RibbonWindow to achieve the native XP look - use our RibbonWindow templates in the Ribbon Source and Samples MSI as an example. If we get feedback from several customers that the Luna theme is a top request, we will definitely consider including that for our next release.
In WPF, the default scrollbars are boring light blue controls, however I noticed that Office 2007 has some really nice scrollbars with animated color transitions.
Does Microsoft provide these visually pleasing scrollbars in WPF? (Via a template or any other method)
No. The closest provided by Microsoft would be the themes in the WPF Toolkit. There are quite a few 3rd party options to get the Office 2007 styles in WPF applications, however.