WPF Ribbon Control with an Office 2007/Windows 7 Look and Feel

The introduction of the ribbon user interface in Microsoft® Office® 2007 has been widely heralded as one of the greater innovations in how people and applications interact, and the new Windows® 7 scenic ribbon is yet another breakthrough. Now xamRibbon™ adds a fully-featured WPF ribbon control to your Visual Studio® 2010/08 toolset, capable of both Windows 7 (Aero) scenic or Office 2007 (Fluent) themes. 

Having the highly flexible, easily configurable user experience your users expect and demand from a WPF ribbon UI, xamRibbon equips you with a quick access toolbar (QAT), application menu, galleries, tabs, contextual tabs, and complete user customization, such as repositionable tools. Package the functionality in your next WPF application so it's easy to find for your users with xamRibbon.

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Features at a Glance

  • Office 2007 Navigation Paradigm - Innovative, intuitive, interactive, it's what users expect today for application-wide navigation.
  • Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon Theme – Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open, now our AERO scenic ribbon theme can inject a Windows 7 look and feel into your application user interfaces.
  • Tabs and Groups - Tabs categorize a ribbon of related features, while groups organize related functions collectively together within expandable layout panels of the ribbon window.
  • Galleries - Help users choose from related options by exposing them with pictoral thumbnails in a scrollable gallery.
  • Quick Access Toolbar - Display commonly used tools in a compact, quick access toolbar (QAT) that users can add/remove tools from.
  • Application Menu - Compact and convenient, the application menu can be tucked out of view until users need it and then it's easy to access.
  • Contextual Tabs - Contextual tabs can display a caption above the ribbon window to highlight functions to the user for a context-sensitive task.