The DevExpress WPF Ribbon Control is an Office-inspired component that replaces traditional toolbars and menus. Features such as galleries, a status bar, a specially designed ribbon window, a quick access toolbar, Aero window transparency, touch support and more allow you to fully replicate the user experience found in Microsoft Office.
Learn the Basics
This section contains multiple survey documents that familiarize you with Ribbon Control terms, and outline its major concepts and features.
Briefly explains major Ribbon Control capabilities and features, and enumerates all standalone controls that work together with the Ribbon Control to create the Office-inspired Ribbon UI.
Guides you through all stages of creating and customizing the Ribbon Control, starting with dropping it onto an application window to tuning individual items.
Each Ribbon Page can be structurally and visually split into multiple Page Groups. These groups are used to combine commands that have certain features in common.
The Ribbon Quick Access Toolbar is a stripe above (or below) the Ribbon Control that is designed to provide end-users with one-click access to the most important and mostly used commands.
Window Controls provide a perfect integration with the Ribbon Control.
Items, Links and Galleries
Explains how to populate your Page Groups, status and Quick Access toolbars with various types of elements - push buttons, static text blocks, editors, drop-down menus, galleries, etc.
Galleries display image lists within a Ribbon Control. Gallery items behave similarly to items in a regular menu: a click on a gallery item invokes a specific event, which you can handle to implement custom logic. For each gallery item, it’s also possible to provide text descriptions. In addition, galleries support hover images and tooltips.
Ribbon Menu
Microsoft Office products of different versions come with different types of main Ribbon menus that typically provide most significant application actions (e.g., creating a new document or printing your data). The DevExpress Ribbon Control allows you to emulate these main menu types with ease and elegance.
Emulates a menu seen in Microsoft Office products starting with Office 2010. Contains a main region that hosts regular commands and tabs, and a content region that displays the contents of the currently selected main region tab.
The Ribbon Control has multiple embedded styles that affect its appearance and behavior. Each style allows you to emulate the specific version of the Microsoft Office Suite. Depending on the current ribbon style, the Ribbon may gain or lose specific features.
Key Tips are hints that appear for all page headers and bar item links when an end-user presses the ALT or F10 key. Each hint displays an associated key that should be pressed to select the related element or execute a command assigned to it.
The Ribbon Runtime Customization feature grants your end-users the ability to customize the Ribbon layout as their needs dictate and save/load these customized layouts to (from) an external storage.