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Welcome to the WinForms-Ribbon wiki!
This is a .NET (Core) and .NET Framework implementation of the "Microsoft Windows Ribbon Framework" which is introduced in Windows 7. It is a REDESIGN of my WindowsRibbon.
- The project contains a .NET wrapper library (RibbonFramework.dll) for all features of the Microsoft Windows Ribbon Framework.
- There are two functionally identical RibbonFramework.dll's. One is a COM callable wrapper (CCW) with less Garbage Collections. It is only available for .NET (Core). The other one is a Runtime callable wrapper (RCW). This one is available for .NET (Core) and .NET Framework (since version 4.6.2).
- It also contains a tool-chain for designing, building and previewing your WinForms-Ribbon project (RibbonTools64.exe). RibbonTools64.exe can also called from command line with parameters. (RibbonTools64 /?)
- RibbonTools64.exe one can also use for designing, building and previewing when you use other programming languages like C++
- For all components (RibbonFramework.dll, RibbonTools64.exe) there are Nuget packages rather Setup files available. See Nuget RibbonFramework.CCW, Nuget RibbonFramework.RCW and Releases page. Please install the latest version.
- And of course there are a lot of samples and documentation.
See documentation in this Wiki (Table of contents on the right sidebar).
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Basics
- Introduction, Background on the windows ribbon framework
- Basic Ribbon Wrapper ; Basic .NET wrappers for windows ribbon framework.
- Quickstart Tutorial
- First WinForms Ribbon Application ; How to create an empty WinForms application with ribbon support.
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RibbonFramework Controls
- RibbonStrip ; Main class, derived from System.Windows.Forms.Control
- RibbonApplicationMenu
- RibbonButton
- RibbonCheckBox
- RibbonComboBox
- RibbonDropDownButton
- RibbonDropDownColorPicker
- RibbonDropDownGallery
- RibbonFontControl
- RibbonGroup
- RibbonHelpButton
- RibbonInRibbonGallery
- RibbonMenuGroup
- RibbonQuickAccessToolbar
- RibbonRecentItems
- RibbonSpinner
- RibbonSplitButton
- RibbonSplitButtonGallery
- RibbonTab
- RibbonTabGroup
- RibbonToggleButton
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RibbonFramework EventArgs classes
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RibbonFramework PropertySet classes
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RibbonFramework classes, interfaces, enums
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RibbonFramework features
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RibbonFramework Samples
- ApplicationMenu with Buttons ; How to use the ribbon application menu.
- ApplicationMenu with SplitButton and DropDownButton ; How to use the ribbon application menu with ribbon split button and ribbon dropdown button controls.
- Tabs, Groups and HelpButton ; How to use ribbon tabs, groups and the ribbon help button control.
- Spinner ; How to use the ribbon spinner control.
- ComboBox ; How to use the ribbon combo box control.
- Changing Ribbon Colors ; How to change the ribbon colors.
- Working with Images ; How to work with images in the ribbon.
- DropDownGallery, SplitButtonGallery and InRibbonGallery ; How to use the ribbon drop down gallery, split button gallery and in ribbon gallery controls.
- CheckBox and ToggleButton ; How to use the ribbon check box and toggle button controls.
- DropDownColorPicker ; How to use the ribbon drop down color picker control.
- FontControl ; How to use the ribbon font control.
- ApplicationModes ; How to work with ribbon application modes.
- ContextualTabs ; How to work with ribbon contextual tabs.
- ContextPopup ; How to work with ribbon context popup.
- RecentItems ; How to work with ribbon recent items control.
- QuickAccessToolbar ; How to work with the ribbon quick access toolbar.
- SizeDefinition ; How to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements.
- Localization ; How to localize a ribbon.
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RibbonTools
- RibbonTools64 ; Development support for creating markup files for the Ribbon framework.
- Create a new project ; Create a WordPad sample project
- Specifying Ribbon Commands
- Designing Ribbon Views
- Preview the Ribbon
- Wrapper class RibbonItems ; An auto generated wrapper class from the ribbon markup.
- Convert Image to ARGB Bitmap
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