WPF Prism and the Ribbon Control

Question

I am working on a line of business application for our company and I came across Prism. I have never worked with it before but the concepts it talks about sound a lot like what I did for the last project in Winforms. I had a ShellForm and then multiple User Controls.

Anyway, assuming I am not seriously misunderstanding what Prism is I would like to know how a Ribbon Control would fit into it. Is it it's own Module with a Region on the Shell.xaml or is it embedded in the Shell.xaml? It seems to me like it would be the second one but then again, I don't know what I am talking about yet or I wouldn't be asking.

Also, I don't suppose anyone else has used a Ribbon Control in an Enterprise Prism application before and could offer any tips or "watch-outs" about walking this path.

Answer 1

More than likely it would be in the Shell.xaml --- since the Ribbon control integrates with the window chrome in ways that I dont think would be possible if it was a modules (and part of a UserControl).

Refer to following to get the window chrome integration: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wpf/archive/2010/08/04/why-should-i-use-a-ribbonwindow.aspx

That limits (at least from a design purist point of view) how the modules can interact with the ribbon control - but more than likely your design doesnt need that if you want to use a Ribbon in the first place.