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Note: There are some more bugs fix at the Discussions Section shared by other user.
There is another ribbon made by
kcarbis based on this ribbon.
See discussion >>
Office 2010 Style Orb, Tooltips, and a Minimize FeatureWebsite:
http://www.staffinder.net/carbisoft/According to
kcarbis, some bugs in this ribbon were fixed and features are extended.
The project has started here:
http://officeribbon.codeplex.com/
How to Use This Ribbon Control
1. Download the Ribbon Source and obtain
System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon.dll at
Download page of this project.
Note: To develop with .NET Framework 3.5 & 4.0.The original develop platform of this ribbon is .NET Framework 2.0. To use this ribbon in .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.0, all you have to do is convert the source code of this ribbon into .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.0. create a new blank class of .NET Framework 4.0. Add all cs files from source project into the blank class and reference of System.Design, System.Windows.Forms and System.Drawing. Compile it.See:
How to Obtain DLL for .NET Framework 3.5 & 4.02. Create a blank WinForm Project.
3. Adding Ribbon into Form.
There are 2 methods to add the Ribbon into the Form.
1st method: Using Code to add it.
2nd method: Drag and Drop
1st Method: Using Code to add it.3.1.1. Add a Reference of
System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon.dll to your project.
3.1.2. Right click on
Reference at the
Solution Explorer, choose
Add.
3.1.3. Locate the
System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon.dll.
3.1.4. Open the designer of the Main Form. In this example,
Form1.Designer.cs.
3.1.5. This is the initial code for
Form1.Designer.cs:
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
partial class Form1
{
/// <summary>
/// Required designer variable.
/// </summary>
private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;
/// <summary>
/// Clean up any resources being used.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
if (disposing && (components != null))
{
components.Dispose();
}
base.Dispose(disposing);
}
#region Windows Form Designer generated code
/// <summary>
/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
/// </summary>
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
this.Text = "Form1";
}
#endregion
}
}
3.1.6. Add three lines of code into
Form1.Designer.cs.
private System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon ribbon1;
this.ribbon1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon();
this.Controls.Add(this.ribbon1);
3.1.7. Save and close
Form1.Designer.cs.
3.1.8. Double click and open
Form1.cs, and now the Ribbon control is added into the main form.
2nd Method: Drag and Drop3.2. 2nd Method: Drag and Drop
3.2.1. This is more simpler way to add the ribbon into the form. Just simply create a new tab at Toolbox. 3.2.2. Drag and drop the DLL into the new tab.
3.2.3. Click on any area of Toolbox. Right click > Add Tab.
3.2.4. Give the new tab a name.
3.2.5. Drag the DLL into the new tab area.
3.2.6. Drag the Ribbon into the Form. Thats it.
And this will automatically add a reference of
System.Windows.Forms.Ribbon for you.
4. Click on the Ribbon and Click
Add Tab.
5. Click on the newly added
RibbonTab, then click
Add Panel.
6. Click on the newly added
RibbonPanel, go to
Properties. A set of available controls that can be added to the
RibbonPanel.
7. Try add some buttons into the
RibbonPanel.
8. Click on the
RibbonButtons, go to
Properties. Lets try to change the image and the label text of the button.
9. This is how your ribbon looks like now.
10. Now, create the click event for the buttons. Click on the
RibbonButton, go to
Properties, modify the
Name of the button.
11. Open the code of
Form1.cs.
12. This is what we have initially:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
}
}
13. Add the
Button Clicked event for the
RibbonButton.
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
cmdNew.Click += new EventHandler(cmdNew_Click);
cmdSave.Click += new EventHandler(cmdSave_Click);
}
void cmdNew_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Button \"New\" Clicked.");
}
void cmdSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Button \"Save\" Clicked.");
}
14. Press
F5 to run the application. Done.
15. You might want to inherit your
Main Form into a
RibbonForm to have extra feature. Such as:
Note: Inherit the
Main Form to
RibbonForm will have some compatible problems with some of
System.Windows.Forms controls.
16. At the code of
Form1.cs, change this line:
public partial class Form1 : Form
to this line:
public partial class Form1 : RibbonForm
Here is the sample project explain above:
Download:
RibbonSample.zip
Cautious While Using With Visual Studio 2010
ALWAYS SAVE AND CLOSE straight away after you have finished designing the GUI editing of
Main Form (The form that contains the ribbon control).
Don't Run (Press F5) The Application while the
Main Form is open in
Visual Studio 2010.
Or else, you might experience that the ribbon control has disappeared. You will end up redesigning/redraw the ribbon and reconnect all the events that associated with the ribbon.