The best Ribbon interface library?

Question

Can anyone recommend a good Ribbon interface library?

I can see that Microsoft is (maybe) planning to release a native Ribbon interface library in Windows 7: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080917/windows-scenic-new-ribbon-based-ui-platform/

But for now, which 3rd party libraries are the best?

Answer 1

Check out www.devexpress.com. Their components are always first rate.

Answer 2

If it's about WinForms, I recommend the Krypton Toolkit. It's a powerful toolkit with some unique approaches and comes with one of the best navigation controls I have seen. It felt always much easier to use than all other libraries I tried.

Answer 3

I second the www.devexpress.com library. It is easy to implement and it seems very flexible. Plus their library comes along with other components such as the tabbed MDI. The documentation is fairly robust and it didn't take me very long to get started with it at all.

Answer 4

In java there is Flamingo.

Answer 5

What about performance of those 3rd party Ribbon implementations? I've seen one, that really lacks! Every move, change of UI seems slow.

Do you have hands-on experience with DevExpress?

Answer 6

Take a look at SandRibbon by Divelements. Very well done component and a simple API to work with as well. The nice thing about the Divelements controls is that you get a control that is focused on solving one particular UI problem, not an all-encompassing toolkit that tries to do everything.

Answer 7

Check out Elegant Ribbon here.

Answer 8

For C++ check out CodeJock, BCG or use the VS2008 MFC Feature Pack and get a ribbon for free!

Answer 9

MFC Feature Pack has ribbon support. Don't know how good it is, but I know it is free :)

Answer 10

DivElements, Telerik, viblend, Krypton, Infragistics, Syncfusion, DotNetBar - They all have ribbon control with Office2007 styles. Some of them also mimic the Windows 7 ribbon style - DotNetBar and viblend.

Answer 11

The "Profesional Ribbon" project on CodePlex is actually very good. And free!

It is well written, so it is easy to implement custom behaviour if you want.

Answer 12

Strange that nobody mentions the WPF Ribbon Preview from Microsoft. Free.

Answer 13

Microsoft did release a native ribbon interface, which is available in both Windows 7 and Vista (via the latest Platform Update).

You can use it in .NET WinForms applications using Windows Ribbon for WinForms.

Answer 14

One of the best nowadays is the Fluent Ribbon Control Suite (open source).
Good support, documentation and very active.

Answer 15

Telerik has a good Ribbon bar library for Windows Forms:

http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/ribbonbar.aspx