We’re very happy to announce that the Backstage application menu is coming to Ribbon for WPF very soon.
The 2010.2 version of Ribbon added the Office 2010 themes seen above. The next maintenance release for 2010.2 takes things one step further and adds support for Backstage application menus.
You can see Backstage displayed above. Note that common application command buttons are easily inserted before and after the Backstage tabs. Selection of a tab shows its related content on the right side of the Backstage menu.
As with the rest of Ribbon, we’ve taken great care to craft the UI of the new Backstage feature to be as close to looking like Office 2010 as possible. Compare our Ribbon with any other competitors and you’ll see quite a difference in rendering quality.
This is a first preview of Backstage. We’ll do another post or two in the coming days to showcase more related features (think recent documents). As mentioned above, this will ship in the coming days when the next WPF Studio 2010.2 maintenance release comes out.