Hello Hendrik,

Thank you for your post.

I have been looking into the custom  functionality that you are trying to achieve. By default the RibbonGroup is designed to be used with XamRibbon control.  What I can suggest, if you would like to use the RibbonGroup separately, is to set the HorizontalAligment and VerticalAligment properties of  RibbonGroup. This way you can render the group in  normal size. I created a simple project in order to show you how you can implement this custom approach. You can use this project as a guideline for implementing the functionality that you are looking for.

If you would like to find the default style for RibbonGroup you can take a look at the following destination on your computer:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Infragistics\2015.2\WPF\DefaultStyles\Ribbon\RibbonGeneric.xaml

Please let me know if you require any further assistance regarding this matter.

After working on the functionality that you are trying to achieve and doing some research, the ability to use the RibbongGroup separately  without XamRibbon  has been determined to be a new product idea. You can suggest new Product Ideas for future versions (or vote for existing ones) at http://ideas.infragistics.com.

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