Microsoft® Office® 2007 and 2010 Styles

You can choose one of two different paint styles - Office 2010 and Office 2007, which are identical to those found in Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2007, respectively. The difference between them is mostly in the Application button's appearance - the main button of an application.

Besides 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-dependant commands.

Galleries were designed to provide an easy and elegant way to organize lengthy option lists. DevExpress WPF Ribbon Control fully implements the Gallery functionality found in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010.

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

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.

In MS Office 2007 applications, clicking the Application Button invokes a special menu, while in MS Office 2010, the menu has another, more elaborate look. With DXRibbon you have the ability to support both types of menus for your application.

If you are using a Ribbon control and wish to add a status bar at the bottom of your window, we suggest that you use a dedicated Ribbon Status Bar control that matches the Ribbon control's look and feel.

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.

Ribbon Window

To best suit the Ribbon UI, DevExpress offers a special DXRibbonWindow, a form that is ideally integrated with a 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.

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

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