Elegant Ribbon V3.5 released

Latest update improves start-up performance and adds Windows 7 theme support for common controls.

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Example ribbons in Office 2010 TP and Office 2007 Black visual themes.

Elegant Ribbon is a set of Windows Forms controls that allow you quickly and easily provide your application with a new-generation user interface like that introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. It is written in 100% managed C# and is CLS compliant. The following innovative approaches were used: context-sensitive and windowless controls, command-oriented programming interface, XML-based skinning, and WYSIWYG and rich design-time support in Visual Studio. All the implemented features fully meet 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Design Guidelines.

Updates in V3.5

• Windows 7 visual theme is now supported for common controls
• FontComboBox control for selecting fonts now has the AutoComplete feature. This control is used in Elegant Ribbon sample applications
• ComboBox control now has the AutoSelect feature
• Improved the cold startup performance
• Gallery control now has a better appearance with the System theme
• Better support for using Elegant Ribbon's source code in solutions on developers' machines
• Added a Ribbon.MinimizedChanging event to cancel changing the ribbon into minimized state
• Added a Ribbon.CurrentTabPageChanging event to cancel a tab change
• Added a StatusBar.IntegrateWithForm property to control how the status bar is integrated with the form
• Updated the Controls sample

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