Free WPF Ribbon that’s MS-PL and includes the C# Source – With BreadcrumbBar, CollapsiblePanel and ExplorerBar WPF controls thrown in for flavor too

CodeProject - Odyssey RibbonBar

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Introduction

The Odyssey RibbonBar is the next WPF control to be added to the Odyssey Control Library, available on codeplex.

Background

After the BreadcrumbBar, ExplorerBar and OutlookBar which I previously introduced at codeproject, the Odyssey BreadcrumbBar is the next Control included in the Odyssey Library. I'm aware of Microsofts WPF RibbonBar which is available as full functional preview and will be added to .NET 4.0. So you may wonder why I wrote an own RibbonBar anyway. The answer is, it's fun and interest to do this. And I also have in mind to build a Silverlight version.

Since the BreadcrumbBar is a set of various controls, it would fill a whole book to explain every detail, so I reduce it to the most important issues of the RibbonBar.

The demo application contains the xaml for a RibbonBar that demonstates most of the features. I did not create a demo that does something usefull nor does it have useful button images or labels. The Images I use for the demo are the free images available at www.glyphx.com

The BreadcrumbBar contains tabs that contain groups. Each group can contain any possible control. However, dynamic sizing is only applied when it contains IRibbonControls.
Currently, there are the following IRibbonControls:

• RibbonButton
• RibbonToggleButton
• RibbonDropDownButton
• RibbonSplitButton
• RibbonComboBox
• RibbonTextBox
• RibbonButtonGroup
• RibbonGallery
• RibbonSeparator

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CodePlex - Odyssey WPF and ASP.NET Controls

“A collection of WPF and ASP.NET controls

WPF

• BreadcrumbBar
• ExplorerBar
• CollapsiblePanel
• OutlookBar
• coming soon: WPF RibbonBar

ASP.NET

• OdcTreeView

an ASP.NET AJAX server control with node templates, context menu and event driven node template selection

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I love the statement, “So you may wonder why I wrote an own RibbonBar anyway. The answer is, it's fun and interest to do this.” A man after my own heart. Why do we code? Because it’s FUN! Dugh!  :P

 

If you liked this article, make sure you check his others too;

CodeProject - WPF BreadcrumbBar

Introduction

This is a Vista like breadcrumb bar for WPF that supports HierarchicalTemplates, population on demand, dynamic path conversation, and many more.

Background

The BreadcrumbBar is part of a free WPF control library named Odyssey that I'm currently developing just for fun. It is similar to the Vista breadcrumb bar, hence it is actually a multi-control bar consisting of the breadcrumb part, an editable ComboBox, a progress bar, and a button area.

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CodeProject - WPF OutlookBar Control

Introduction

The Outlookbar is the third control included in Odyssey.dll, a WPF control library for free that is currently under development.

Background

Articles about the other two controls, the BreadcrumbBar and the ExplorerBar, with animated collapsible panels are already available here on CodeProject (see the History section for links).

Using the code

The Outlookbar is the third control included in Odyssey.dll, a WPF control library for free that is currently under development. Articles about the other two controls, the BreadcrumbBar and the ExplorerBar with animated collapsible panels are already available here on CodeProject.

The OutlookBar is - as the name already indicates - a sidebar control that looks like the bar in Outlook. The OutlookBar is a container for OutlookSections to show each section as a button and the content of the selected section. …”

CodeProject - WPF Explorer Bar

Introduction

This is a WPF Explorer Bar similar to the Explorer bar in Windows XP. An explorer bar usually contains one ore more collapsible panels, as shown above.

Using the code

WPF offers very nice animation features to allow almost anything you can imagine. Unfortunately, for a generic panel that supports animation while expanding/collapsing, it's not just as simple as defining DoubleAnimation to the Height property. Although it would work for ScaleTransform.ScaleY, the effect would be different to what we see in XP. Therefore, I use a custom Decorator control, which, in a few words, is a panel that can contain only one child. The AnimationDecorator has an IsExpanded property that specifies whether the decorator is expanded or collapsed. To perform the animation, I added a helper property named YOffset that will be animated. YOffset has a range from 0 to the ActualHeight of the decorator, and is used at ArrangeOverride and MeasureOverride to perform the animation

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