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This post actually scratches only the surface of the Ribbon in terms of features and design. I plan to dedicate one more post on the Ribbon covering the architecture and design pattern.

In short, UXRibbon is fully MVVM ready which allows you to “instantiate” and change the ribbon dynamically through binding. We will ship a project template that provides the framework and guidelines to achieve dynamic Ribbon instantiation based on the selected module (think the case in Outllok such as Mail, Calendar, etc). This is gonna be exciting topics

I will make sure the template is covered along with the architectural post in my next post.

Thanks,
Jimmy

When I approach developing an application using Ribbon Metaphor, I have to change my entire mindset from using a menu that calls individual isolated pages that appear in the browser either as MDI or SDI to a more composite application. Menus/toolbar offer a simple older generation design where each page handles a different task. In case of Ribbon, I’ve seen and been confronted by two separate cases,depending on the type of application.

Case 1, is like a Paint program or Text editor, where you load an image on the Canvas and then you may have 50 features that could apply on that image. All these 50 features [broken in different tabs] share one common object and that is the Image. So you would see the Ribbon becomes a Single Large program that holds these 50 features inside of it to deal with one object.

Case 2, is like a CRM app that most of the features on Ribbon bar are actually independent programs/pages that perform an independent task, however the Ribbon acts as a “Shell” that hosts these programs inside of it as a container and the user sort of deals with them in an SDI fashion.

Question: Since ClientUI is nicely created based on MVVM and “Application Framework”, can you please explain, how this Ribbon can be used as an “Application” main shell that all pages can be loaded and unloaded effortlessly and give us a fluid Navigation container?
A sample [with ClientUI6 release] for building a simple composite using UXRibbon and Application Framework would be very helpful.

Thank you in advance!