Is it possible to not have the list of recent items in the application menu? I'd like to just fill it with our company logo instead since we don't have "recent items".
...Matt
Hi Matt,
Technically you can have whatever you want in there. But to release this control we had to follow a strict specification from microsoft, and the recent items area falls under the umbrella of things that cannot be changed. However, that said the recent items list is entirely under your control, so you could just have one recent item, make it an image, and set its height to ~315.
<igr:XamWebRibbonApplicationMenu.RecentItems>
<Image Source="/Images/Logo.png" Height="315"/>
</igr:XamWebRibbonApplicationMenu.RecentItems>
If that's all you do it should get you close to the look you want, if you are okay with the image glowing when users hover over it that should be all you need to do.
I do not know if the Windows 7 Fluent guidelines are different, but according to the Office 2007 guidelines, in section:
DISPLAYING THE APPLICATION MENU
"7. The right pane SHOULD display a list of recent documents if applicable. "
I used the evaluation guidelines from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-ca/office/aa973809.aspx (line 77)
By this, the recent file list is not a requirement.