A User Interface Control/Component by Actipro Software LLC

Actipro Ribbon is a control suite that implements an Office 2007-like user interface for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and meets all of the core Microsoft licensing requirements for implementation of a ribbon user interface.

Ribbon has been designed from the ground up to follow WPF best practices, be extremely configurable, use a command-driven model, and allow for reproduction of nearly all the user interface features found in Office.

Control Features
- Full implementation of the core Microsoft ribbon user interface requirements.
- Ribbon bar that has tabs containing groups capable of hosting child controls.
- Built-in control types include buttons, checkable buttons, popup buttons, split buttons, checkable split buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, textboxes, comboboxes, font family comboboxes, font size comboboxes, separators, labeled separators, in-ribbon galleries, popup galleries, and color picker galleries.
- Gallery controls that can be used in-ribbon or on popups and support data binding to any source, rendering via templates or custom draw, animated scrolling, multiple resizing options, selection tracking, categories, filtering, and zooming-in on item mouse over.
- Color picker gallery control supports multiple categories of colors and optionally auto-generates lighter/darker shades of colors.
- Use any built-in ribbon control standalone anywhere outside of the ribbon.
- Ability to add any control, including UserControls, anywhere into the ribbon, popups, menus, or the application menu.
- Multiple ways to lay out controls on the ribbon via the use of various panels.
- Application menu, with menu items and footer buttons.
- Ability to place any control on the right side of the application menu, such as a recent documents list.
- Quick access toolbar that can be displayed above or below the ribbon.
- Powerful cloning framework for customizing the QAT and persisting changes between application sessions. Full source for a Customize QAT dialog page is included.
- Contextual tab groups whose visibility can be toggled on and off.
- RibbonWindow class that can be used to provide a Office-like window appearance, even without the use of a ribbon control.

Appearance Features
- Visual styles that match Office 2007.
- Built-in blue, black and silver color schemes, with the ability to generate an entire custom color scheme based on a single color.
- Any of the hundreds of colors in a color scheme may be individually modified as needed.
- Reuse stock brushes and colors on external controls such as ListBoxes to keep a consistent UI.
- Styles for StatusBars and their items, ScrollViewers, ScrollBars, and numerous other controls.
- Fade and other color animations throughout the user interface.
- Vista glass support.

Layout, Globalization, and Accessibility Features
- Automated ribbon control resizing that can be fully customized so that less important controls scale down or collapse sooner.
- Ability to save on screen real estate by minimizing the ribbon.
- Ribbon can collapse when it becomes smaller than a certain width or height.
- Key tips that provide quick keyboard access to any control.
- Screen tips that can be assigned to any control and support on-the-fly content creation.
- Right-to-left support is fully integrated for languages such as Hebrew or Arabic.
- Scale the ribbon up or down to any size.

Command Model
- Takes full advantage of the WPF command model.
- Commands can provide various UI elements such as labels and images so that controls with the same command can automatically get the same user interface.

Code and Requirements
- Includes detailed documentation and a sample project that demos nearly every feature.
- Written in 100% pure C# and is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation framework.
- Requires the .NET 3.0 or 3.5 run-time framework.
- Full XAML support and XBAP compatibility.
- Extensive Visual Studio 2008 designer capabilities.
- Visual Studio 2008 and/or Expression Blend are recommended development tools for this product.

System Requirements

.NET 3.0 or later Visual Studio 2005 with Orcas extensions is recommended