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I'm trying to get a standard Ribbon Control working using VS 2010 on Windows XP. I've downloaded/installed the latest version of the Ribbon Control (October 2010) from the Microsoft Download Centre. From here I created a new project with the "WPF Ribbon Application" template.

The control itself works fine, but it seems to apply the Windows 2000 theme to the Minimise/Maximise/Close buttons, as can be seen in this screenshot:

Ribbon Control with Windows 2k styles for top right windows controls

I've tried changing the main window style to Aero in app.xaml (no effect on top right controls). I also tried (and failed) to set the Ribbon style to Office2007 (apparently the most recent version of the ribbon control has removed this feature).

Did I install something incorrectly? I installed both the *.msi files in the link. Am I missing a reference?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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  • You can check the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4184191/microsoft-ribbon-for-wpf-4-0-0-11019 – abramlimpin Dec 14 '10 at 07:59
  • Thanks for the link, it looked like it was pointing me in the right direction, but I failed to get its solution (retemplating the window) to work. No matter how I set the theme (in App.xaml, MainWindow.xaml and programatically) I couldn't get the desired result, i.e. get rid of the rubbish "Classic Windows" Windows controls. I did learn a lot about how to access themes from different assemblies though, so it was still quite useful. But question remains unanswered. – markmuetz Dec 20 '10 at 10:59
  • edited my answer, this is still popping up every time in Google, please accept the answer! – MCollard Mar 07 '14 at 09:28

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I figured it out, I know this is an old question but he this pops up in Google so for all the people that will see this in the future!

ANSWER DOWN HERE!!!

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21675624/3239917

Instead of the tags <ribbon:RibbonWindow on the beginning of the xaml, Make it <Window .

Then in your class delete your : RibbonWindow

After that go back to your XAML, and change the Ribbon margin to -22 : 

 <r:Ribbon x:Name="Ribbon" prism:RegionManager.RegionName="RibbonRegion" Margin="0,-22,0,0" >
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