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WPF C# Ribbon Control Library

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A WPF / C# Library for implementing Office 2007 Style Ribbon Interfaces
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;

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// Author:  Derek Bartram                                                       //
// Date:    23/01/2008                                                          //
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namespace DNBSoft.WPF.RibbonControl
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for RibbonDoubleButton.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class RibbonDoubleButton : RibbonControlBase, IRibbonFullControl 
    {
        public event MouseButtonEventHandler BottomButtonPressed;

        protected override void initialize()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            List<GradientStop> transparentStops = new List<GradientStop>();
            transparentStops.Add(new GradientStop(Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0), 0));
            transparentStops.Add(new GradientStop(Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0), 0.647));
            transparentStops.Add(new GradientStop(Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0), 0.6471));
            transparentStops.Add(new GradientStop(Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0), 1));
            RibbonStyleHandler.styleButtonBorder(theControl, topBorder, bottomBorder, this, this, Color.FromArgb(0, 0, 0, 0), transparentStops);
            RibbonStyleHandler.styleButtonText(bottomBorder, descriptionLabel);
            RibbonStyleHandler.styleButtonText(bottomBorder, descriptionLabel2);
            RibbonStyleHandler.styleButtonText(bottomBorder, arrowLabel);

            this.ImageChanged += new ImageChangedEventDelegate(RibbonDoubleButton_ImageChanged);
            this.TextChanged += new TextChangedEventDelegate(RibbonDoubleButton_TextChanged);
            bottomBorder.MouseDown += new MouseButtonEventHandler(bottomBorder_MouseDown);

            addClickElement(topBorder);
            addSubMenuOpener(bottomBorder);
            this.styledBorders.Add(topBorder);
            this.styledBorders.Add(bottomBorder);

            this.KeyboardAccessVerticalOffset = 58;
        }

        private void bottomBorder_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {
            if (BottomButtonPressed != null)
            {
                BottomButtonPressed(sender, e);
            }
        }

        private void RibbonDoubleButton_TextChanged(TextChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            descriptionLabel.Content = args.NewText;
            descriptionLabel2.Content = "";

            if (args.NewText.Contains("|"))
            {
                descriptionLabel.Content = args.NewText.Split(new char[] { '|' })[0];
                descriptionLabel2.Content = args.NewText.Split(new char[] { '|' })[1];
            }
        }

        private void RibbonDoubleButton_ImageChanged(ImageChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            imageBox.Source = args.NewSource;
        }

        public override void updateStyle(RibbonStyleHandler.StyleChangedEventArgs args)
        {
            base.updateStyle(args);

            //arrowLabel.Foreground = RibbonStyleHandler.ButtonNormalText;
            //descriptionLabel.Foreground = RibbonStyleHandler.ButtonNormalText;
            //descriptionLabel2.Foreground = RibbonStyleHandler.ButtonNormalText;
        }

        protected override void subMenu_Closed(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            base.subMenu_Closed(sender, e);
            RibbonStyleHandler.forceLeaveAnnimation(bottomBorder, null);
        }
    }
}

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Software Developer Rail Research UK
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I originally studied for a masters in engineering of software engineering at The University of Birmingham during 2000-2004, of which I received a 2:1. I continued at Birmingham University working with Civil Engineering and Rail Research UK where I am currently in my final year of a 3 year PhD project developing a Computational Intelligent Approach to Railway Intervention Planning. Although my work has a significant focus on railway engineering and associated practices much of my work is with data mining (on SQL Server 2008) and computational intelligence (CI) techniques. My key areas of expertise in CI are clustering algorithms (including Rival Penalised Competitive Learning) and evolutionary algorithms.

Outside of my formal work I enjoy testing the latest technologies such as .NET 3.5 and the many frameworks of which it comprises (mainly WPF). I have several projects on the go including a .NET and DirectX port of Quake 3 and many utility libraries. I also maintain an extensive website coded in Cold Fusion which is regularly updated; more information is available about me there.

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