Ribbon integration into WinForm's

[Adam Nicholson]

I am trying to find reference material on Google for integration of Office Ribbon from the ribbon designer in Visual Studio 2010 and I can only find C# articles and code examples. I know it's easy enough to convert it to C++ but I really can't understand from examples how to integrate without using MFC I really don't want to be working with the kind of code layout they are showing I have an existing project that would take too much work to convert to work with that.
I've been wanting to use a ribbon for ages and it just frustrates me more and more every time I try to attempt it.

[webJose]

What Office Ribbon are you trying to use? I suppose it is an external component? Which one?

[Adam Nicholson]

The Microsoft Ribbon Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd371191(v=vs.85).aspx

[webJose]

Ah, I see. That's NOT the Office ribbon, that's the native Windows 7 ribbon. This framework is COM-based, so you must be familiar with COM in C++. Are you? It also uses XML to define what the ribbon will contain. Are you proficient in XML as well?