Today I'll show you how to use the following ribbon features inside a Winforms application: Menu Group Split Button in an Application Menu Drop Down Button in an Application Menu The result of this post looks like this: SplitButton VS DropDownButton What is actually the difference between those two? DropDownButton is NOT a button, meaning clicking it does nothing. Hovering over it will open a list of buttons. On the other hand, SplitButton is itself a button, which you can respond to. Hovering...
Before we start to use ribbon features, we must learn the basics of ribbon markup. Commands and Views A command is an action that is identified by a number, it can be opening the save-as dialog, printing the current document, closing the application, etc. every thing you can do in a function call. A view is a graphical representation of [usually several] commands. It defines the type of controls used to activate the commands and their size, order and layout on screen. So using commands and views...