Sorry but this is not the case.

In my case, the xamRibbonWindow caontain a ContentControl.

The real XamRibbon is entered as part of UserCotrol that inside that ContentControl:

e.g.

<igRibbon:XamRibbonWindow

    <ContentControl x:Name="MenuLocation"

</igRibbon:XamRibbonWindow

---

behind code:

MyApp.View.MenuLocation.Content = RibbonCont

----

While RibbonCont is a UserCotrol:

<UserControl...

    <igRibbon:XamRibbon

I did not check it yet. but I am wondering how would it know that this is the ribbon?

hence I have a ribbon (in the contentControl and an additional body.

<igRibbon:RibbonWindowContentHost>

        <ContentControl x:Name="MenuLocation">          

        </ContentControl>

<igRibbon:RibbonWindowContentHost.Boddy>

<Grid>... This is the body of the page.

</grid>

</igRibbon:RibbonWindowContentHost.Boddy>

    </igRibbon:RibbonWindowContentHost>

Or should I place the Ribbon's ContentCotrol in the Grid?

I tried before to put the contentControl in my Grid that is in the body and it was working but it did not get the nice affect it should have.

Basically in order to have the XamRibbon be incorporated into the non-client area of a xamRibbonWindow you must make the direct content of the xamRibbonWindow be a RibbonWindowContentHost and the Ribbon property must be set to the xamRibbon that will be incorporated into the non-client area. You cannot have the xamRibbonWindow's Content be your usercontrol and have it do this. As was recommended you would need to put the RibbonWindowContentHost as the Content, set the Ribbon property to the xamRibbon you want it to contain and then put your ContentControl as the Content of the RibbonWindowContentHost.

Hello Andrew.

I have the same problem here and I tried to get it running the way you explained, but at least I couldn't:-( What I would like to have is the following:

A WPF-Window representing the main window with a "central" Ribbon. My different program modules (user controls) should be displayed on a TabGroupPane hosted in a DocumentContentHost. I got that running and it works very well. Now each program module (user control) should hold its own Ribbon and when the module is activated it should incorporate the Ribbon (Tabs and Groups) in the central Ribbon of the main window.

If I read your posting well it should be possible to achive this but I couldn't figure out how to do this. Can you please give me a little code sample?

Thank you,

Ralf

Ralf,

Did you ever get an answer to this?  I'm looking to do the same as you descrie and could use an example.

Thanks.

Steve

Hello Prasanti and thank you for posting!

As you have correctly noticed the Ribbon property expects value of type XamRibbon and this is the reason UserControl, even when it contains only XamRibbon, could not be set as value to it. You can rather use XamRibbon directly in order to have it displayed in the non client area of the XamRibbonWindow (in the title) or set the UserControl directly in the XamRibbonWindowContentHost and get it displayed in the client area as was previously discussed here.

Hi All,

I have a problem with my sample where I tried to insert the XamRibbon into the XamRibbonWinodow in XamRibbonWindowContentHost.Ribbon field (as you know only then it will merge into the title bar), where my XamRibbon is defined in another UserControl.

Now I am unable to add this user control into the XamRibbonWindowContentHost.Ribbon field as it expects only XamRibbon control in it.

I also tried another option where I can declare a contentcontrol with XamRibbon in it, which can be included in XamRibbonContentHost defining a grid. But here it doesn't merge the XamRibbon into the Tiltlebar.

Please help me out here if there is a way out there to do this as I have a requirement where I need to use a UserControl for declaring the XamRibbon and also need the Ribbon to be merged into title bar. I am attaching my XamRibbonWindow in this post.

Thanks,

Prasanti.

Hello Steve.

I'm sorry, No. I did not receive a answer that helped me to solve that problem. I don't have the sources of that project anylonger and I can't remember, if I found another solution. I don't use Infragistics anylonger but I would think, that the controls have evolved since the last month and maybe it's worth to post this question again directly to the support.

Good luck.

Ralf