WPF 4.5 Microsoft's Ribbon: which control of RibbonApplicationMenu

Question

I am using Microsoft's Ribbon of WPF 4.5 and developing application using VS2012 (C#) on Win 8 machine. I want to make my application show RibbonApplicationMenu like the "File"-menu of Office Word 2010, but I can't find out which control is used for it (see attached screenshot, red-marked control number 1 and 2). I also tried RibbonApplicationSplitMenuItem but it is more like Office old-style. Maybe anyone can tell me. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Finally I found the answer in wpf sample browser of infragistics netadvantage. The no. 1 is called "backstage" (ribbon 2010 style), no. 2 is a "application menu item". (in my opinion) The infragistics' ribbon is easier to use than the Microsoft's one, since I can't find tutorial how to create backstage (ribbon 2010 style); the existing tutorials are mostly using old ribbon (2007 style). Here take a look my simple code snippet:

<Window x:Class="TestRibbon.MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    xmlns:ig="http://schemas.infragistics.com/xaml"
    xmlns:igRibbon="http://infragistics.com/Ribbon"
    xmlns:ignore="http://www.ignore.com"
    mc:Ignorable="d ignore"
    Height="768"
    Width="1024"
    Title="Test Ribbon"
    DataContext="{Binding Main, Source={StaticResource Locator}}">
    <Grid x:Name="gridMain">
        <igRibbon:XamRibbon x:Name="ribbonMain" 
                            Width="Auto" 
                            ApplicationMenuMode="Office2010" 
                            ApplicationAccentColor="Blue">
            <igRibbon:XamRibbon.ApplicationMenu2010>
                <igRibbon:ApplicationMenu2010 Caption="File">
                    <igRibbon:ApplicationMenu2010Item KeyTip="I"
                        Header="Information">
                        <igRibbon:ApplicationMenu2010Item.Content>
                            <Grid Margin="20,0,0,0">
                                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                    <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
                                    <ColumnDefinition Width="150" />
                                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="0">
                                    <TextBlock Margin="0,20,0,0" Foreground="Black" Text="IP" />
                                </StackPanel>
                                <StackPanel Grid.Column="1">
                                    <TextBlock Margin="0,20,0,0" />
                                    <TextBlock Foreground="DarkGray" Text="192.168.2.1" />
                                </StackPanel>
                            </Grid>
                        </igRibbon:ApplicationMenu2010Item.Content>
                </igRibbon:ApplicationMenu2010>
            </igRibbon:XamRibbon.ApplicationMenu2010>
        </igRibbon:XamRibbon>
    </Grid>
</window>