Denis over at DevComponents finally broke the silence about the WPF-Ribbon. There is a private beta which you can sign up for…

“Wpf-Ribbon™ is the fully complaint Office 2007 style Ribbon control developed from ground-up for Windows Presentation Foundation. Wpf-Ribbon™ is a professional quality component for professional WPF applications. ”

Partial list of Wpf-Ribbon™ features:

• Unlimited color schemes
• Automatic intelligent Ribbon resizing
• Application menu support
• Contextual groups support
• Office 2007 controls included, like ComboBox, Check-box etc.
• KeyTips support
• Predefined color schemes Blue, Silver, Black
• Office 2007 style Galleries support
• Ribbon popup menu support
• Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) with customization
• Keyboard navigation

A list of some other tools and controls for WPF can be found on Mike Swanson’s blog.

Technorati : .Net, NetFX3, WPF, WinFX, XAML

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