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This may seem to be a duplicate question but I searched all over the web to find a post or article about creating a ribbon control for C# Win Form Application not for Excel (MS office) I tried to follow a tutorial in some other site and my project yields lots of error is there any tutorial on how to create a ribbon from scratch ?
You could create a ribbon control by creating a custom usercontrol. Go to your project, and right click, select add -> new item -> usercontrol (be sure it's for Windows Forms). Then, what you could do is add a TabControl to the designer area in Visual Studio (or instantiate it if you're making it from scratch). Then, for each tab, you could add all of the controls you need. As for coloring the tabs, if you are trying to style the ribbon like in MS Office products, here is a link to a StackOverFlow post on this topic: Set TabPage Header Color (be sure to see what the answer below the correct answer says if you have trouble). Aside from the coloring of the tabs, you could add then add the usercontrol to the form. If you don't need the ribbon to be reusable, you don't even have to make it a usercontrol--you could simply add a tabcontrol directly to the form you need a ribbon on.
Looking around the web, most people point to this as the best one: Archived CodePlex project "Windows Ribbon for WinForms". Microsoft never added a "blessed" ribbon control to Windows Forms. There really hasn't been any work done on Windows Forms since the 2005 (Whitbey) time-frame (which predates the Office Ribbon).
Oddly, they did a major release of MFC in 2008 that included a ribbon system - go figure. That was the only work they've done to MFC since about 1998.
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My boss wanted an vsto outlook add in and I'm very close to finishing it. I need to write
the manifest and release it (and hope everything works).
So long story short, is there a way to read the old documentation?
When I look up the documentation, it changed, and I can't find the things I'm looking for. I find a lot
of the new stuff for the new Outlook (preview) but not for the old one. Stuff like the "old one is no more supported. That's how you can import your code",
"the new one is in javascript" - i wrote the code in C# with VS2022.
Like everything changed in few weeks.
I want to look up the old VSTO documentation about the manifest and how to integrate it, deploy it and maybe other stuff if some bugs appear.
(also strange: the docs say a vs solution creates 2 projects (app + manifest), but my solution has by default only 1 project, the app/add-in I assume).
You can start from the Walkthrough: Create your first VSTO Add-in for Outlook page. There you can find all the required information like Outlook object model overview and Outlook solutions.
There is no need to deal with VSTO manifests. What you really need is to create an installer for your add-in, there are two main ways for deploying VSTO add-ins:
Deploy an Office solution by using ClickOnce
Deploying a VSTO Solution Using Windows Installer
i created an installer and it was installed successfully, but the add-in didn't show up, and we had difficulties due to some security issues. So maybe i was wrong in thinking it could be a "missing manifest".
Thx for the answers and the information.
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Using Spy++ tool, it seems that some Microsoft apps use NetUIHWND and DirectUIHWND window classes; e.g.: Word 2010's ribbon seems to be a NetUIHWND, instead Windows Live Messenger window seems to be a DirectUIHWND.
These window classes seem to host kind of cool graphics (with shadows, gradients, etc.); is it possible to use these window classes in our own Win32 C++ apps? Is there any documentation about them?
Yes, it has been around for a while already. But it gets especially a lots of usage in Windows7. Unfortunately, they keep this one to themselves, it is undocumented. You can try to reverse-engineer it, use a ListView as a guide to what it might do. But your code will almost certainly break in the next version of Windows. Which I think was the point of not documenting it, they need something they don't have to keep backwards compatible to be able to improve the look-and-feel of the operating system.
NetUIHWND and DirectUIHWND are the Win32 class types for different GUI toolsets.
From Win32 perspective they are a self drawn panel.
So you wouldn't use these classes directly, you would use the other GUI toolsets to build the UI.
Not sure about the Messenger UI, but you can use the ribbon control in your own apps.
On WTL: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/54116/Relook-your-Old-and-New-Native-Applications-with-a
On MFC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/reference/cmfcribbonbar-class
Use the Microsoft Active Accessibility API:
There is no need to reverse engineer this thing, you can enumerate this class structure using the Microsoft Active Accessibility API.
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How do I create an attractive GUI - similar to the one used for Microsoft Office - in C#?
I will be using Winforms and C#.
WPF is a good place to start. Also you may checkout this blog post which illustrates how to create an Office like Ribbon in WPF.
Do you want to emulate the Office 2007/2010 ribbon?
Codeplex has a WinForms ribbon control you might like at http://ribbon.codeplex.com/.
See also Ribbon UI Control for WinForms
There are many rich controls collections, some free, some that need payment (devexpress.com for example).
You want it for WinForms, for Silverlight, for WPF, for ASP.NET? (devexpress has all of them).
If you want something "free", there are toolkits for WPF and Silverlight on codeplex.
Take a look at Krypton - It is a Free Winforms Skinner (Themer) that gives a cool look without too much effort. All you need to do is use their controls (which are extended from the basic Winforms Controls and have the same properties / methods events.
The visual part of Office that I see most people emulating is the ribbon control. Here's info on an example like it.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/ribboncontrol.aspx
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wondering how to create such app like Microsoft Expression Blend 4, with the modern design.
Very interested with the scroll and tab panel. The scroll is modern look, small and thin, unlike those wide scroll bars normally found in Windows Explorer.
Expression Blend 4 is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Application.
WPF allows you to customize nearly every aspect of the UI (including the scrollbars if you'd like).
Since you specifically call out the scroll panels, here's a tutorial that shows you specifically how to customize the look of the scroll bar by modifying the WPF template:
sachabarber.net >> Styling a ScrollViewer/Scrollbar in WPF
The nice thing about WPF is that once you understand how to modify things by changing their template, you can use the same method to change the look/feel of just about anything.
You could use DevExpress components for Windows Forms or WPF.
WPF is the way to go. Look at some of the themes here to get an idea.
There is even an Expression Dark theme.
Telerik has a sweet WinForms suite that has many sleek looking controls. That might be a good starting point.
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I need to be able to generate dependency diagrams programmatically. I'd like it to be able to generate a bunch of boxes with labels and connectors linking them, and ideally the component would position them automatically onto a design surface which could then be manually rearranged.
I'm using WinForms and C# 2.0 (VS2005).
EDIT: However, since it'll be an internal tool, I can probably use 3.5 SP1 and WPF if there any suggestions in that arena.
Must be free or open source.
Any recommendations?
Too late for the questioner but perhaps interesting for researchers:
NShape
NShape is an Open Source diagram designing framework for .NET
WinForms. Software developers use NShape to integrate diagramming
capabilities into their applications. Using NShape, applications let
users view, annotate, modify and create diagrams like flow charts,
wiring schemes or project charts. NShape is open source and has a dual
license which allows it to be employed for free in open source
projects and for a license fee in commercial projects.
Did you try the CodeProject article series by Sukram:
WPF Diagram Designer
Here is some references which might be interesting for you:
Diagram.NET
Diagram.NET is a free open-source
diagramming tools written entirely in
C#.
Put Diagram.NET WinForm Control into your form and, like Microsoft Visio®, the user can draw shapes and links. With some code you can control, change, add and delete these elements.
Microsoft Chart Controls
The samples environment for Microsoft
Chart Controls for .NET Framework
contains over 200 samples for both
ASP.NET and Windows Forms. The
samples cover every major feature in
Chart Controls for .NET Framework.
They enable you to see the Chart
controls in action as well as use the
code as templates for your own web and
windows applications.
You might want to take a look at GraphViz which is being distributed under CPL (i.e. free of charge). It is not exactly for .NET/WinForms but can be useful anyway. The library's main purpose is to visualize graphs (and dependency diagram is effectively a [directional] graph). You can use it to either get an image (graph layout) or an array of points (coordinates for you items).
OpenDiagram
Open Diagram is the definitive open source .net diagramming
component library for the .Net framework winforms environment.
Use Open Diagram to add interactive data visualizations to your .net
applications.
I have tried it with WinForms, works very well.
I have similar request as yours. Here's one open source solution for drawing diagrams. It's from Microsoft and samples written in C#.
https://github.com/Microsoft/automatic-graph-layout
Here's one that renders to HTML5 (You can easily extend to Visio) from GridWizard/Github
Source code: https://github.com/gridwizard/SimpleFlowDiagram
Wordpress doc: https://gridwizard.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/simple-c-library-to-render-graph-to-flowchart/
Downside is, you need a viewer to display HTML5. Alternatively, SimpleFlowDiagramLib already calculate Node.x and Node.y - you can render it to Winform/WPF yourself (but then you need to code rendering yourself)
Vote for NShape. More or less it's fine.