Quick Start

The following quick start guide is intended to get you up and running with WPF Ribbon. In this quick start, you'll start with Visual Studio and create a new project, add WPF Ribbon to your application, and other elements as shown in the image below.

Image showing ribbon application with tab, groups, buttons, togglebuttons and dropdown tool.

To set up your project and add a C1Ribbon control to your application, complete the following steps.

Create a new WPF project in Visual Studio.
Add a reference to the C1.WPF.Ribbon assembly. Add the C1Ribbon control to the XAML designer using C1Ribbon class.
```
<c1:C1Ribbon FontSize="14" SelectedIndex="0">
</c1:C1Ribbon>
```

Add a ribbon tab "Home" using RibbonTabItem class. In the tab, add ribbon group "Edit" using RibbonGroup class.

<c1:C1Ribbon FontSize="14" SelectedIndex="0">
            <c1:RibbonTabItem Header="Home">
                <c1:RibbonGroup Header="Edit">
                    </c1:RibbonGroup>
            </c1:RibbonTabItem>
        </c1:C1Ribbon>

In the next step, you can add different elements to Ribbon, such as Ribbon button using C1ButtonTool class, Ribbon Toggle button using C1ToggleButtonTool class and drop down item using C1DropDownTool class.

<c1:C1Ribbon FontSize="14" SelectedIndex="0">
           <c1:RibbonTabItem Header="Home">
               <!-- Adding first group -->
               <c1:RibbonGroup Header="Edit">
                   <c1:C1ButtonTool Label="Copy">
                           <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                                   <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/copy.png"/>
                               </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                           </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool>
                       <c1:C1ButtonTool Label="Cut">
                           <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                                   <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/cut.png" />
                               </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                           </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool>
                   <c1:C1ButtonTool Label="Paste">
                       <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/paste.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ButtonTool>
               </c1:RibbonGroup>
               <!-- Adding second group -->
               <c1:RibbonGroup Header="Scale">
                   <c1:C1DropDownTool Label="Preview">
                       <c1:C1DropDownTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/preview.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1DropDownTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1DropDownTool>
                   <c1:C1ButtonTool Label="Zoom In">
                       <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/zoom_in.png" />
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ButtonTool>
                   <c1:C1ButtonTool Label="Zoom Out">
                       <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/zoom_out.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ButtonTool>
               </c1:RibbonGroup>
               <!-- Adding third group -->
               <c1:RibbonGroup Header="Font">
                   <c1:C1ButtonTool>
                       <c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/open.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ButtonTool>
                   <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool Label="Bold" IsChecked="True">
                       <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/bold.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool>
                   <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool Label="Italics">
                       <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/italic.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool>
                   <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool Label="Underline">
                       <c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                           <c1:C1IconTemplate>
                               <c1:C1BitmapIcon Source="/underline.png"/>
                           </c1:C1IconTemplate>
                       </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool.IconTemplate>
                   </c1:C1ToggleButtonTool>
               </c1:RibbonGroup>
           </c1:RibbonTabItem>
       </c1:C1Ribbon>

Here, there are three groups, Edit, Scale and Search. The Edit group has three buttons, Copy, Cut and Paste, the Scale group has a Preview dropdown tool, Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons and the Font group has three toggle button tools, Bold, Italics and Underline and a color-picker button tool.

Congratulations! You've now completed creating a basic ribbon user interface.