Today I was listening to the Hanselminutes show about .NET 3.5 SP1...What's inside, and they twice mentioned the Office 2007-like Ribbon control that is included in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. I am very interested about this, as I was previously looking at purchasing this from a 3rd party vendor (likely DevComponent's DotNetBar...
What experience have you had with introducing a Ribbon style control to legacy MFC applications? I know it exists in the new VC2008 Feature Pack, but changing compilers from VC2005 is a big deal for our source base and integration to our environment, Intel FORTRAN, ClearCase, many 3rd libraries. There are quiet a few different commeri...
Understandably the Ribbon UI doesn't suit every application, or even most of them, however I'm suprised so few developers have chosen to adopt it. Any ideas why? How much work would be involved for a fairly major application to get the new UI? ...
The first time I ever used it was at my current job. Among my coworkers, the feelings toward it for usability are mixed. The other developer doesn't really care one way or the other, as long as Office does everything he needs it to do when writing reports. The top manager likes it because it feels natural, and I feel the same way. But an...
Okay this question is coming from someone who has never written any code beyond CSS, HTML and some php... Pretty much I'm using Word all day and constantly needing to refer to just a couple of sites and resources on the web. I would like to create a little add-in to go in the Ribbon in Word. I have the full VB 2008 Proffesional editio...
How do they compare to the DevXpress ones or the original MSOffice ones. Are they worth investing time in them (for practical usage now, not academic curiosity which I'll do anyway)? ...
I've been starting to use the new inbuilt Ribbon controls in Delphi 2009 and use the custom frame so the Application button and Mini-toolbar slide up onto the Window Frame, but I'm wondering if on Vista it should use the glass effect like Office 2007 does, and if so how I would enable this setting. Thanks for any help. ...
Hi, I heard Microsoft allows use of commercially available Office UI controls, with the exception of competing products, such as a word processor or spreadsheet app, etc. How true is that? Also, if it is not true, do you know of any free Ribbon controls? ...
ToolStrip with MenuStrip or RibbonBar? ...
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? ...
I'm developing my first Word 2007 addin, and I've added an OfficeRibbon to my project. In a button-click handler, I'd like a reference to either the current Word.Document or Word.Application. I'm trying to get a reference via the OfficeRibbon.Context property, which the documentation says should refer to the current Application object. ...
I have a CMFCRibbonStatusBar in my mainframe to which I add a CMFCRibbonButtonsGroup which again has a CMFCRibbonButton. This button has the same ID as a menu entry. Creating the button is done as follows: CMFCRibbonButtonsGroup* pBGroup = new CMFCRibbonButtonsGroup(); CMFCToolBarImages images; images.SetImageSize(CSize(32, 16)); // N...
How do you create non scrolling div that looks like the MS Office 2007 ribbon on a web page without two sets of scroll bars. One for the window and one for the div. ...
One of the PDC2008 presentations showed off the new VS2010 UI (not the same as the current beta) that was built with WPF. Some of the new code effects looked fairly nice (comment xml parsed and styled within the code editor). It got me wondering if Microsoft would ever change the VS UI to the Ribbon; like Office, the change could possi...
I found several controlsets for that nice looking ribbons (DotNetBar, DivElements, ...), but all require a license for at least 100 USD. Is there a free controlset that looks quite as nice as the commericial ones? ...
I am using VSTO 3.0 and the ribbon designer gives me a ribbon that is apparently shared across documents. So if I have Document specific state( number of XML marked up tags say) that needs to show up in the ribbon( or a toggle button ) then all documents seem to share the ribbon instance How can I fix this TIA ...
Is there a Ribbon UI Control available in VS 2008? Will it be available if i have office 2007 installed on the development and deployment machines? EDIT: I would imagine that Microsoft would include the Ribbon UI control in VS 2008 as this is the way the UI of office is going to be moving forward also for the sake of consistency in Wi...
I'm going to add a WPF Ribbon UI to my program. What is the best suite of WPF controls including a ribbon control, based on your experiences? Thanks! ...
I have developed a Ribbon application on Vista using VS 2008. It works fine on Vista. I statically link MFC so that I can run it on XP too. But when I run it on XP, it puts up a dialog box saying "A required resource was unavailble". Later if I press OK on this dialog, it puts up another one saying "Encountered an improper argument". M...
I've created my own ribbon toolbar tab with a few buttons. I can add text and similar actions to the document I'm working on. Now I want to add a button that will save the document I'm working on without using the Word save button because I want to set some of the parameters. Every example I found showed how to save a document that was...