VS 2012 RibbonButton Open Form

Question

How do you get a RibbonButton to open a Form (let's say Form1)? There is a click callback on RibbonButton called "Click" but I am not sure what to do with this. I am guessing something needs to go in the VB window but I have no idea what.

The MSDN library suggests "Event Click As RibbonControlEventHandler" which is great but what do you do with it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Well, you put the code that shows in the form in the event handler. I don't understand your problem. Is it that you don't know how to show a form? — Roger Rowland, Mar 24 '13 at 11:30
Thanks for the reply. I need an answer that involves some code for the XAML which begins — James Satori-Brunet, Mar 24 '13 at 11:41
Google finds more detail - e.g. http://vb2010wpf.blogspot.co.uk/ for VS2010 or http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/0b73e1/ribbon-control-in-wpf-4-5/ for VS2012 — Roger Rowland, Mar 24 '13 at 11:52
Yes, I just tried it and you're right - it sucks - not at all intuitive. If I can figure it out, I'll post again .... — Roger Rowland, Mar 24 '13 at 17:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '13 at 17:42

Ok, I just got a simple version working. It turned out that by default the button is only 4x4 pixels and you can't see it to click it - not sure if that was your problem too. Anyway, this is what I did ...

I had a main window with the Ribbon and RibbonButton - sized and coloured so I could see it

<Window x:Class="MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <Ribbon x:Name="RibbonWin"  SelectedIndex="0">
            <RibbonButton x:Name="btnOne" Height="32" Width="32">
                <RibbonButton.Background>
                    <SolidColorBrush Color="Red"/>
                </RibbonButton.Background>
            </RibbonButton>
        </Ribbon>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Then I added a second Window to be shown on the click event

<Window x:Class="Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Grid>
    </Grid>
</Window>

Finally, I added a Click handler for the RibbonButton on the main window

Private Sub btnOne_Click(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs) Handles btnOne.Click
    Dim wnd As Window1 = New Window1
    wnd.ShowDialog()
End Sub

Now everything works as expected. Does that help?

You are a gentleman and a scholar. This worked perfectly. Your time is much appreciated. I have scoured forums and websites trying to find this simple code and I haven't been able to do so, until now. — James Satori-Brunet, Mar 24 '13 at 21:28

VS 2012 RibbonButton Open Form

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