How to get that Office 2010 Ribbon look into your WPF applications

Now that Office 2010 is here, some developers have started to ask how they could emulate the (changed) Ribbon looks from Office 2010 in their own products. Currently, Microsoft has a solution that looks the same as Office 2007, but now that the new Office version is out, of course the older one is getting "old".

I haven't investigated the timeframe that Microsoft is planning to update their own solutions, but in the mean time, I wanted to point out an open-source alternative at CodePlex. The CodePlex project is called "Fluent Ribbon Control Suite", and is available at http://fluent.codeplex.com/. Currently, the project does not provide 100% implementation of all the Ribbon options, but it is very close. But the best thing is that this package already supports the Office 2010 looks.

So, if you are interested in having the Fluent interface in your own WPF applications, check this project out.