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DotNetBar for WPF 5.9 and later includes support for creating Office 2010 style Backstage application menu. Following image shows what Backstage application menu looks like: Start by adding Ribbon control to your Window if you do not already have Ribbon added. Make sure that your project is targeting at least .NET Framework 3.5 otherwise VS.NET […]

DotNetBar for Windows Forms 8.8 and later includes support for creating Office 2010 style Backstage application menu. Following image shows what Backstage application menu looks like: Add RibbonControl to your form from VS.NET toolbox: Select StyleManager component that was created when you added Ribbon and change its ManagerStyle property to Office2010Blue. At this point also […]

DotNetBar 8.2 includes new component StyleManager to provide you with single place to manage styles and color tinting for all controls that have style set to style manager controlled. To use StyleManager as central place for style changes you must set Style=StyleManagerControlled property on all your controls. StyleManager can be added to your main form […]

To create new custom color tables for ribbon tabs and ribbon tab groups you need to set CustomColorName property on RibbonTabItem and RibbonTabItemGroup objects with the name of the custom color table you created and have added to Office2007ColorTable. Here is sample code that creates new color tables for ribbon tab and ribbon tab group. […]

When using RibbonBarMergeContainer to perform MDI Child Ribbon merging the visual position (X position) of the RibbonBar control inside of the RibbonBarMergeContainer will control the actual merge order of the controls when they are added to the MDI Ribbon panel. For easier management of the RibbonBar controls inside of the RibbonBarMergeContainer we recommend using following […]

Wpf-Ribbon™ includes 3 predefined color schemes: Blue (default), Silver and Black. To change the current color scheme simply merge our color scheme resource into your application current resources. If you are using DotNetBar for WPF 5.4 or later you can use Ribbon.VisualStyle and DockSite.VisualStyle properties to change style and color scheme for ribbon and dock […]

If you are using DotNetBar 8.2 and later use StyleManager component instead. Read more about StyleManager. To change the Office 2007 renderer color table and apply it to all DotNetBar controls on the form use following call: RibbonPredefinedColorSchemes.ChangeOffice2007ColorTable(myForm, DevComponents.DotNetBar.Rendering.eOffice2007ColorScheme.Blue) myForm – Reference to the form which contains all DotNetBar controls you want to apply color […]

DotNetBar Galleries include automatic support for the Gallery Groups that are used to group the items contained inside of gallery together under group label when gallery is displayed on popup. Here is how default gallery looks like when used on the RibbonBar: Below is the Gallery with the same content but displayed on the popup. […]

To access or change the colors that are used by DotNetBar Ribbon and other controls in Office 2007, 2010, Windows 7 and other styles you could use following code: VB: If TypeOf GlobalManager.Renderer Is Office2007Renderer Then Dim table As Office2007ColorTable = DirectCast(GlobalManager.Renderer, Office2007Renderer).ColorTable ‘ Assign the WinForms Panel BackColor to DotNetBar panel BackColor ‘ Explore […]