Microsoft® Office® 2007, 2010 and 2013 Styles

You can choose between Office 2013, Office 2010 and Office 2007 paint styles, and fully replicate the user experience found in Microsoft Office.

And just like Office 2010 and 2013, the DevExpress WPF Ribbon fully supports runtime customization.

In addition to regular pages, which are always visible, the Ribbon control also supports contextual pages. These are painted differently than regular pages and are designed to provide context-dependent commands.

Help Topic: Ribbon Page Categories and Contextual Pages

Galleries were designed to provide an easy and elegant way to organize lengthy option lists. The DevExpress WPF Ribbon Control fully implements the Gallery functionality found in Microsoft Office 2013.

Help Topic: Ribbon Galleries | Examples: How to define an in-ribbon gallery

The Ribbon control allows you to display various items within its commands region and QAT: buttons, dropdown buttons, check buttons, submenus, editors, radio groups.

Help Topic: The List of Bar Items and Links

The Ribbon control provides out-of-the-box layout adaptation capabilities. If you narrow a window, the Ribbon's content will automatically be compressed by changing large to smaller images, hiding item text, moving buttons into dropdown windows, etc. If you widen the window, the layout will be restored to its initial state.

DX Ribbon allows you to support Office 2013, Office 2010, Office 2007 Application Buttons and Menus. For applications using the MS Office 2007 style, clicking the Application Button invokes a special menu, while in MS Office 2013 and 2010, the menu has a more elaborate appearance.

Help Topic: Application Button | Help Topic: Application Menu | Help Topic: Backstage View

If you are using a Ribbon Control and wish to add a status bar to your application, you can use the built-in Ribbon Status Bar, which fully matches the appearance settings of the Ribbon.

Help Topic: Ribbon Status Bar | Examples: How to define a Ribbon Status Bar

The Ribbon control is generally not customizable in the sense that an end-user cannot change the position of commands or hide them. However, favorite commands can be copied to the Quick Access Toolbar via a built-in context menu.

Help Topic: Ribbon Quick Access Toolbar | Examples: How to add items to the Quick Access Toolbar

Ribbon Window

The DXRibbonWindow is a form with an integrated Ribbon Control. Quick Access Toolbar and window control buttons are flawlessly merged into the DXRibbonWindow's title bar, saving space for the client area in your application.

Help Topic: DXRibbonWindow | Examples: How to create a DXRibbonWindow

End-users can minimize the Ribbon so that only page headers are visible. Clicking any page header expands the minimized Ribbon.

Help Topic: Minimizing Ribbon

Enable this feature to allow end-users to navigate through Ribbon elements and activate any Ribbon command using the keyboard.

Help Topic: Key Tips