Have you ever wondered what happened to custom menu bar in office 2007 or in Window7 PAINT, yes a more appealing, vibrant and good looking Ribbon is used in place of menu bar to make things easier. You can see ribon in action in Office 2007 or in native applications of Windows 7 like PAINT, WORDPAD etc.

If you are a developer and want to integrate Ribbon in your application than Visual Ribbon Creator (A tool for VC++ programmers to create Windows 7 Ribbons for their projects!). You can use this tool to integrate Ribbon in your application, though the tool is meant for Visual C++ only but you can use it other languages too since it can generate dll.

Visual Ribbon Creator (VRC) is a flexible tool for Windows 7 Applications Developers to create a Windows 7 Ribbon visually for their applications. TurboIRC.com a software and research based website has launched this software. VRC is created by Michael Chourdakis.

VRC creates a standard Windows 7 Ribbon using Win32 only. No MFC or Office-related coding. It is different than Visual Studio 2010 editor which creates a MFC/Office Ribbon. Use VRC if you are doing Win32/x64 directly. Since you are coding in Win32 it helps you remove a lot of coding which you otherwise do while creating the same in MFC (Integrate Ribbon in MFC Application).

Features:

• x86,x64.
• Generate Ribbon code.
• Generate DLL.
• Generate Code Snippers for sample usage.

VRC is available in 3 editions:

• Free – Generates a ready-to-use Ribbon DLL and includes a tab with copyright information.
• Standard – Same as Free without that tab.
• Professional – Same as standard – Includes CPP/VCPROJ / Sample Usage C++ code generation and allows for direct XML ribbon code editing.

VRC needs Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 or VC++ Express to be installed. Windows 7 SDK is also required. However you are not forced to use it from C++, as it generates a DLL that can be used by any other programming language.

ScreenShots

Note: If you have any doubt regarding its use feel free to submit your queries her

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