First, let me say a big YAY to the recent release of the update WPF ribbon. Just started looking through the samples, and it looks pretty good. Now, I have a couple of questions about things that I was doing with the ribbon CTP, and would like to know how to do with the new ribbon...
1) Select a theme. The CTP had blue, silver, black that could be set by merging in a resource dictionary
<ResourceDictionary Source="/RibbonControlsLibrary;component/Themes/Office2007Blue.xaml"/>
Do we have any such choices with the new ribbon? It's great that this looks like windows 7 style. Is there support for office 2007 themes? Like if somebody actually liked the old "frisbee" button?
2) Reference resources from the ribbon. In the CTP, I found it useful to borrow some of the resources defined in the ribbon for use in other places in my app. This allowed me to match fonts, colors, gradients, etc.. in a few places. Like I could do stuff like this:
<StatusBarItem TextElement.Foreground="{StaticResource {x:Static r:RibbonSkinResources.RibbonFontColorBrushKey}}" />
And my status bar text was the same color as the ribbon text. Maybe that was a bad idea, but it sure was handy.
Thanks
roger reynolds