Divelements has just released SandRibbon, a Windows Presentation Foundation ribbon control. This product seems comparable to the ribbon control from DevComponents that we previously posted about.
I haven’t had time to download them both to do a side-by-side comparison. They both offer trial versions available for download. WPF Ribbon | SandRibbon
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Hi Michael, I thank you for mentioning our Wpf-Ribbon earlier. At this point in time our control is by far more complete than any other offering.
We support all required and almost all optional Office 2007 Ribbon Design Guidelines and even have a comprehensive table that cross-references Microsoft specified guidelines point by point to the functionality that we provide. Check it out at http://www.wpfribbon.com
You’ll be hard pressed to find that attention to detail and transparency elsewhere.
Thanks for the feedback Denis. Your comment prompted me to do little more research, as a result I’ve updated the posting. Cheers.
Howdy all,
While it is great to see competition between vendors, what I have not seen yet and is the biggest failing of all the Ribbon controls, is not one of them supports design time in Expression Blend.
As control manufacturers, you need to be aware that WPF applications are aimed at being styled by designers and not developers. Make it too hard for a designer to use your control (as you all are at present) and you wont see your sales fly though the roof.
You really want to make the best Ribbon control? Make it so designers can easily style it and apply their own visual requirements inside the design tool for the platform.
Brennon,
Sorry for the late comment on your post. The main obstacle to implementing the design-time support at this moment is lack of design-time documentation provided by Microsoft for Expression Blend. At this time you just can’t find any whatsoever…
You need that to provide the design-time support for complex controls like Ribbon. Most of the controls included with WPF are really simple controls so they have built automatic support for that in Blend…
Beyond that you would need reference and documentation for Blend design-time interface to provide design-time support…
I expect that this will be sorted out as tools and WPF as platform matures and you can rest assured that we will be leading the way with the design time support…
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