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Welcome to the WinForms-Ribbon wiki!

This is a .NET (Core) and .NET Framework implementation of the "Microsoft Windows Ribbon Framework" which is introduced in Windows 7. It is a REDESIGN of my WindowsRibbon.

  • The project contains a .NET wrapper library (RibbonFramework.dll) for all features of the Microsoft Windows Ribbon Framework.
  • There are two functionally identical RibbonFramework.dll's. One is a COM callable wrapper (CCW) with less Garbage Collections. It is only available for .NET (Core). The other one is a Runtime callable wrapper (RCW). This one is available for .NET (Core) and .NET Framework (since version 4.6.2).
  • It also contains a tool-chain for designing, building and previewing your WinForms-Ribbon project (RibbonTools64.exe). RibbonTools64.exe can also called from command line with parameters. (RibbonTools64 /?)
  • RibbonTools64.exe one can also use for designing, building and previewing when you use other programming languages like C++
  • For all components (RibbonFramework.dll, RibbonTools64.exe) there are Nuget packages rather Setup files available. See Nuget RibbonFramework.CCW, Nuget RibbonFramework.RCW and Releases page. Please install the latest version.
  • And of course there are a lot of samples and documentation.

See documentation in this Wiki (Table of contents on the right sidebar).