Fluent.Ribbon or "Fluent Ribbon Control Suite"

This project was previously hosted on CodePlex.

Fluent Ribbon Control Suite is a library that implements an Office-like user interface for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It provides well-customized controls such as RibbonTabControl, Backstage, Gallery, QuickAccessToolbar, ScreenTip and so on. It is bundled with the most up-to-date Office 2010, Office 2013 and Windows 8 styles.

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Contact

If you wish to contact me (batzen) directly please use twitter https://twitter.com/batzendev.

Contributing

What you can do to help us

• We are accepting pull requests, so you are very welcome to create one.
• Fix some bugs
• Help us translating
• Help us updating the documentation and walkthrough
• Help us writing a changelog/release notes for the next version

Settings that should be used

• Visual Studio settings which should be used
• All languages * Indentation: 4 spaces (please don't use tabs)
• XAML
  • Position each attribute on a separate line
    • Position first attribute on same line as start tag

Documentation

Please, download walkthrough This document covers the main features of this framework and highlights how to use it, but is pretty outdated right now. Almost all features are shown in the showcase application. If you think there is something missing in the showcase application feel free to create an issue for that.

To be more familiar with Ribbon concept see msdn article.

History & Roadmap

A history of changes is maintained in the Changelog and the ReleaseNotes. The (rough) roadmap is done by milestones.

Feature List

Office UI Element	Status
Backstage
Displaying the Backstage Button	Full Support
Backstage Menu Controls	Partial
Application Menu
Displaying the Application Button	Full Support
Application Menu Styles	Full Support
Tabs
Displaying Tabs	Full Support
Minimizing the Ribbon	Full Support
Tab Scrolling	Full Support
Groups
Displaying Groups	Full Support
Group Size Reducing / Increesing	Full Support
Dialog Box Launchers	Full Support
Controls
Button	Full Support
ToggleButton	Full Support
DropDownButton	Full Support
SplitButton	Full Support
TextBox	Full Support
CheckBox	Full Support
ComboBox	Full Support
Spinner	Full Support
Toolbar	Full Support
ColorGallery (ColorPicker)	Full Support
Ribbon Resizing
Defining Groups for Ribbon Resizing	Full Support
Collapsed Group Behavior	Full Support
Defining Group Combinations for Ribbon Resizing	Full Support
Group Horizontal Scrolling	Full Support
Tabs Compression	Full Support
Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
Displaying QAT	Full Support
Ribbon right-click QAT support	Full Support
Position QAT below the Ribbon	Full Support
Displaying Many Controls in the QAT	Full Support
Keyboard Access
Displaying KeyTips	Full Support
Dismissing KeyTips	Full Support
Keyboard Navigation	Partial
KeyTip Size and Positioning	Full Support
KeyTips for Collapsed Groups	Full Support
KeyTips for All Kind of Menu and Submenu	Full Support
KeyTips for Backstage	Partial
KeyTips custom placement	Full Support
KeyTips for Quick Access Toolbar	Full Support
Galleries
Displaying Galleries	Full Support
Gallery inline/popup support	Full Support
In-Ribbon Galleries	Full Support
Resizing Expanded In-Ribbon Galleries	Full Support
Filtering Gallery Groups	Full Support
Mini-Toolbar
Displaying the Mini Toolbar	Not Implemented
Dismissing the Mini Toolbar	Not Implemented
Controls Displayed on the Mini Toolbar	Not Implemented
Displaying the Mini Toolbar with Context Menus	Not Implemented
ScreenTips
Displaying ScreenTips	Full Support
F1 help access	Full Support
Disable Reason Text	Full Support
Image in ScreenTip	Full Support

If you feel lack of some important features feel free to use issues to create an issue/feature request.

Localizations

• Arabic
• Azerbaijani
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korea
• Norwegia
• Russian
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese (including brazilian)
• Romanian
• Sinhala
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese