Overview

Telerik WPF RibbonBar is an easy-to-use implementation of the Microsoft Office 2007 “ribbon” UI, which allows you to codelessly organize the navigation functionality of your application into a single compact toolbar control. Its popup engine, dynamic resizing and powerful customization capabilities, make the WPF RibbonBar your shortcut to creating powerful navigation systems.

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Features

• MS Office 2007 Interface at your Fingertips
• Automatic Resizing and Minimization
• Galleries and Popups
• Context Menus
• Application Menu, Recent Documents Menu
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Nested Controls
• Styling and Appearance
• WPF/Silverlight Code Compatibility
• Feature Matrix
• VS Plug-in for Testing RadControls

• MS Office 2007 Interface at your Fingertips

  Telerik WPF RibbonBar control enables you to build user interfaces similar to the RibbonBar used in Microsoft Office 2007. This feature ensures your applications will look up to date with the Microsoft applications your users are familiar with.
  
  

  

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• Automatic Resizing and Minimization

  Telerik WPF RibbonBar and its composite parts fully support automatic resizing. The different groups and panels adjust their dimensions and internal layout dynamically to accommodate best the available space.
  Each RibbonBar group has up to four different layouts, so that the control can be easily resized.
  The Telerik RibbonBar also supports minimization that allows you to hide the RibbonBar and let only the tabs appear, thus saving space. Clicking a tab will make the RibbonBar popup and let you use all its controls.

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• Galleries and Popups

  Telerik WPF RibbonBar is built on modular popups, in which galleries, menus and collapsed groups are embedded. All RibbonBar galleries and popups mimic Office galleries exactly and fully comply with the ribbon UI requirements. Telerik RibbonBar allows you to fully control the popups’ location, size and  content.
  The RibbonBar’s ColorPicker galleries provide an advanced implementation for color selection.
  

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• Context Menus

  Telerik RibbonBar inherits from ContextMenu, thus allowing you to use any ribbon control on context menus.

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• Application Menu, Recent Documents Menu

  The Application menu is accessible through the Application Menu Button on the left.
  Besides the standard buttons (such as New, Open, Save, Print, etc.) you can use footer buttons. In the right side of the Application Menu you can nest any content – Recent Documents, for example.
  

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• Quick Access Toolbar

  The RibbonBar's quick access toolbar is usually displayed either in the window's title bar or below the RibbonBar. It provides quick access to the most commonly used commands in your application. You can fully customize the Quick Access Toolbar to make it most convenient for your application.
  

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• Nested Controls

  Telerik WPF suite supplies all controls that you will need in a ribbon bar. This means reduced learning curve, because you will not need to learn new tools if you have already worked with the RadControls suite. The controls included in the WPF RibbonBar are:
  
  

  • TabControl
  • ColorPicker
  • ToolBar
  • Buttons and check boxes 
  • ComboBox
  • Galleries - RadGallery, which is already built-in RadRibbonBar

  

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• Styling and Appearance

  Telerik WPF RibbonBar is a fully customizable control, which lets you easily modify all its visual elements. The control comes with several predefined skins that can be customized if needed.
  

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• WPF/Silverlight Code Compatibility

  The WPF RibbonBar shares a single codebase with its Silverlight counterpart. This means that you can achieve close to 100% code reuse for your RibbonBar logic if you have parallel WPF/Silverlight development.
  

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• Feature Matrix

  Section	Required	"Must" Item Status	"Should" Item Status
  Application Menu	Yes	No	No
  Displaying the Application Menu	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Application Menu Controls	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Ribbon	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Tabs	Yes	No	No
  Displaying Tabs	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Minimizing the Ribbon	No	Complete	Complete
  Tab Scrolling	No	Complete	Complete
  Group	Yes	No	No
  Displaying Groups	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Dialog Box Launchers	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Controls	Yes	No	No
  Displaying Controls	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Control Layouts	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Control Labels	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Control Behaviors	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Ribbon Resizing	Yes	No	No
  Defining Groups for Ribbon Resizing	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Collapsed Group Behavior	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Defining Group Combinations for Ribbon Resizing	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Quick Access Toolbar	Yes	No	No
  Displaying the Quick Access Toolbar	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar	No	TBD	TBD
  Displaying Many Controls in the Quick Access Toolbar	No	TBD	TBD
  Visual Appearance	Yes	No	No
  Application Button	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Quick Access Toolbar	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Application Title Bar	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Tabs	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Ribbon Background	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Groups	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Keyboard Access	Yes	No	No
  Displaying KeyTips	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Dismissing KeyTips	Yes	Complete
  Keyboard Navigation	Yes	Complete	Complete
  KeyTip Size and Positioning	Yes	Complete	Complete
  KeyTips for Collapsed Groups	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Contextual Tabs	No	No	No
  Selecting Contextual Tabs When Inserting a New Object	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Showing Contextual Tabs After Selecting An Existing Object	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Contextual Tab Labels	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Galleries	No	No	No
  Displaying Galleries	Yes	Complete	Complete
  In-Ribbon Gallery Navigation Arrows	Yes	Complete	Complete
  Displaing Expanded In-Ribbon Galleries	Yes	Complete	Complete
  ScreenTips	Yes	No	No
  Displaying ScreenTips	Yes	Complete	Complete

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• VS Plug-in for Testing RadControls

  Telerik's automated software testing tool Test Studio is among the few to deliver rich UI object model that covers the entire range of UI elements in WPF. Easily record tests, customize them in code within Visual Studio or convert them to unit tests. What’s more, Test Studio is the best way to test RadControls for WPF. The powerful test recorder automatically detects the controls and exposes commonly used verifications. Learn more

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