I will look into this for you and see if I can replicate the behavior. Have you tried opening the same project in Blend? We made lots of tweaks to valid XAML that the Blend editor didn't like to ensure that the default styles could be edited in that tool. Sounds like this may be one of those cases, only with the Visual Studio Designer instead of Blend.

"fantamango77" wrote in message news:20358@forums.infragistics.com...

Hi Grant,

I did some testing today, in order to find a way to replicate the behavior. Here's what I have so far.

I created a new WPF application and added all the necessary references. I added a XamRibbon in the Window1.xaml file. It showed up just fine.
Next I created a folder "Styles" within the project and copied the the following files from the Infragistics DefaultStyles folder:

* RibbonGeneric.xaml
* RibbonOffice2k7Blue.xaml
* RibbonOffice2k7Brushes__Shared.xaml
* RibbonOffice2k7Brushes_Blue.xaml

I added the following snippet to Window1.xaml:

    <Window.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                <ResourceDictionary Source="Styles/RibbonOffice2k7Blue.xaml"/>
            </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </Window.Resources>
   
Now the Designer (Visual Studio) can't open the design view of Window1. Instead I get a bunch of error messages. All saying:

No constructor for type 'RelativeSource' has 3 parameters.

Surprisingly (at least for me) Expression Bleand can handle that, as it opens Window1 just fine. (Thanks for the hint, Grant)
But I want to open the design view within Visual Studio.

Here is an example line, the compiler complains about:

Binding="{Binding Path=IsBelowRibbon, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, {x:Type igRibbon:QuickAccessToolbar}, 1}}"

So I fixed all the lines to something like this:

Binding="{Binding Path=IsBelowRibbon, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type igRibbon:QuickAccessToolbar}, AncestorLevel=1}}"

Now I have to fix the reference to the ApplicationMenu image.

And the next error I get is in line 768 of RibbonGeneric.xaml:
Value 'igRibbon:ButtonTool.SizingMode' cannot be assigned to property 'Property'. Invalid PropertyDescriptor value.

I hope this helps.

Ciao

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