Add Items to the Report Designer's Ribbon Toolbar

• Aug 18, 2023

This tutorial illustrates how to customize a Report Designer’s ribbon toolbar by adding a new button to it.

Tip

See the following tutorial to learn how to add a Report Designer to a WinForms application: Create a Custom End-User Report Designer.

Do the following to customize the toolbar of a ribbon-based designer form:

• Click the button and add a new RibbonPageGroup to the toolbar.

  

• Click the smart tag of the created page group and set its RibbonPageGroup.Text property to Help.

  

• Click the button in the created group and select Add Button in the invoked context menu.

  

• Set the button’s BarButtonItem.Caption property to About.

• Handle the newly added button’s BarItem.ItemClick event:

  C#

  private void barButtonItem1_ItemClick(object sender, DevExpress.XtraBars.ItemClickEventArgs e) {
      // Show the About dialog. 
      System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("This is a Ribbon Report Designer Form.", "About");
  }
  

  VB.NET

  Private Sub barButtonItem1_ItemClick(sender As Object, e As DevExpress.XtraBars.ItemClickEventArgs)
      ' Show the About dialog. 
      System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("This is a Ribbon Report Designer Form.", "About")
  End Sub
  

The following image illustrates the result: