The Problem

Using XamRibbon’s ButtonTool control in a MVVM application may present some challenges when attempting to wire-up binding against the control. The problem arises since the ButtonTool control inherits from the RibbonTool class which is not a framework element. A non-framework element class does not allow the ViewModel (set as the DataContext of the View) to be referenced in the binding of the Click event of…

This blog post was inspired by one from Alex Fidanov and uses its code.

Looking at his sample I wondered if I can tweak the Age field some more so that the gradient used as a background to be more informative – to display an accurate graphic representation of the value. So I began playing with a LinearGradientBrush – I was looking for a way to display 2 colored LinearGradientBrush without the gradient part.…