Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

25.4. The Last Word

In this chapter you looked at four controls that underpin professional Windows applications. The first three—the Menu, ToolBar, and StatusBar—derive from the ItemsControl class you considered in Chapter 20. But rather than display data, they hold groups of menu commands, toolbar buttons, and status items. This is one more example that shows how the WPF library takes fundamental concepts, such as the ItemsControl, and uses them to standardize entire branches of the control family.

The fourth and final control that you considered is the Ribbon, a toolbar replacement that was introduced as the distinguishing feature of Office 2007 and became a standard ingredient Windows 7. Although the ribbon isn't yet baked into the .NET runtime, ...