Telerik WPF RibbonBar populated via DataBinding

Question

I have and object model, a UserProfile, that contains many ServiceProfile, each containing many CommandProfile. I have bound this model with Telerik WPF OutlookBar:

<telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar

                                ItemsSource="{Binding ServiceProfiles}"
                                Background="{Binding Color}">
                                <telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.TitleTemplate>
                                    <DataTemplate>
                                        <Label Content="{Binding Description}"/>
                                    </DataTemplate>
                                </telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.TitleTemplate>
                                <telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.ItemTemplate>
                                    <DataTemplate>
                                        <Label Content="{Binding Description}"/>
                                    </DataTemplate>
                                </telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.ItemTemplate>
                                <telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.ContentTemplate>
                                    <DataTemplate>
                                        <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding CommandProfiles}" Background="Transparent">
                                            <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                                                <DataTemplate>
                                                    <Button 
                                                        Content="{Binding Description}"
                                                        Command="{Binding ExecuteCommand}"
                                                        />
                                                </DataTemplate>
                                            </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
                                        </ListBox>
                                    </DataTemplate>
                                </telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar.ContentTemplate>
                            </telerikNavigation:RadOutlookBar>

This XAML code creates a OutlookbarItem for each ServiceProfile. Each OutlookbarItem presents a list of buttons as a content.

I'm not able to do the analogous job with ribbonBar: inside a single tab (referring to my UserProfile), I want to create a RibbonGroup for each ServiceProfile. Inside each Group (Service profile) there are many Ribbonbuttons, one for each CommandProfile. But I'm not able.

I arrive to this code:

 <telerikRibbonBar:RadRibbonTab 
                x:Name="theTab"
                Header="{Binding Description}" 
                Background="{Binding Color}"
                ItemsSource="{Binding ServiceProfiles}">

            </telerikRibbonBar:RadRibbonTab>

which creates the ribbongroups, but I'm not able to control anything (title of the group, fill (via Binding) the content.

Any idea?

Thanks

Marco Parenzan

Answer 1

Bit late, but sorry to say but it doesn't look supported yet:

http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/ribbonbar/headertemplate-of-radribbontab.aspx

Hello Alex Fan, Unfortunately the RibbonBar doesn't support databinding for now. However, you can put your vote for this feature in our PITS thus increasing its priority. In your case the best will be if you add the ribbon items programmatically. Let us know if you need more info. All the best, Tina Stancheva the Telerik team