How To Use Ribbon Control In C# Windows Application

Way 2007

Manner 2010

Style 2013

Groundwork

The ribbon that is going to be used in this article is an open source projection created past Jose Menendez Poo. However, the original author of the ribbon has stopped back up of information technology. A group of fans of this ribbon re-host and continue to develop/enhance and support the ribbon.

The original ribbon creator has posted an commodity explaining what this ribbon is all near at [A Professional Ribbon You Will Employ (Now with orb!)]. Yet, that article doesn't describe how to use information technology in your project. Therefore, this article volition show how to use it.

One-time Site: http://ribbon.codeplex.com (by the original author, simply has stopped support)
Sometime Site two: http://officeribbon.codeplex.com (re-host by fans of the ribbon) site shutdown
New Site: https://github.com/RibbonWinForms/RibbonWinForms

How to Use this Ribbon Control

The ribbon class library can be added via Nuget. Right click your project and get to "Manage Nuget Packages..."

Search "RibbonWinForms" and install the nuget package.

Drag the ribbon control into the class.

Click "Add together Tab".

Click "Add together Panel".

Showing the commands of the "Panel":

Click the command and add the controls you want.

Changing the icon and button text label.

Adding the "Click" event.

Type the commands that you wish to exercise in the event block.

At present, try run the application.

Case of using RibbonForm way.

Supervene upon the inheritance of "Form":

to "RibbonForm".

Note

Some behaviour of "RibbonForm" might non be working properly in some unknown circumstances. Nosotros recommended that you to perform the test in your environment earlier delivering your awarding into production.

Culling Ribbon Command

Windows Ribbon Framework
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-united states of america/windows/win32/windowsribbon/-uiplat-windowsribbon-entry
Support Windows 7 onwards

Krypton WinForms components for .NET
https://github.com/ComponentFactory/Krypton

RibbonLib
https://github.com/ennerperez/RibbonLib
https://www.nuget.org/packages/RibbonLib

Windows Ribbon for WinForms
https://github.com/ennerperez/RibbonLib
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/arik/2010/11/08/windows-ribbon-for-winforms-v26-released/
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/55599/Windows-Ribbon-for-WinForms-Office-0-Table-of-Conten

Ribbon by Juan Pablo G.C.
http://world wide web.codeproject.com/Articles/18449/An-like shooting fish in a barrel-way-to-add together-a-Ribbon-Panel-Office-2007-styl
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19044/The-new-RibbonForm-RibbonRoundButton-and-FastMenu

History

8^th Baronial, 2019: Publish Nuget Parcel, several bug fixes
12^th April, 2012: Initial version

License

Nearly the Authors

	Product Manager
	U.s.a.

Jose Menendez

- I've been programming Windows and Web apps since 1997.
- My greatest business organization nowadays is product, user interface, and usability.

Personal site
https://jose.folio

Programming is an fine art.

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	Software Programmer (Senior)
	Austria

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Lead Software Engineer on a paperless office / workflow arrangement. I specialize in building custom user controls and components that are using in my everyday software. I've besides worked with Neural Networks for character recognition on documents in my paperless office software.