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Jens
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Problems with custom styles
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Hello,

 I want to customize the look and feel of the Ribbon Bar. So I followed the recommendations of the docs and copied the Default Styles that are shipped with the library. I added the styles as resource dictionaries to my window. The app compiles fine, but the Visual Studio Designer throws error after error at me. Let me say this: This doesn't work out of the box at all. Even if I follow the documentations. I can't get this to work.

The current error I'm getting is  

"Value 'igRibbon:ButtonTool.SizingMode' cannot be assigned to property 'Property'. Invalid PropertyDescriptor value."

 This error occurs within a multitrigger of the RibbonButtonToolTemplate.

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  • 1215
    posted in reply to Jens
    Thanks for this extra info. Definitely helps. Will work towards creating XAML that both VS and Blend are happy with.
    Hi Grant,

    I did some testing today, in order to find a way to replicate the behavior. Here's what I have so far.

    I created a new WPF application and added all the necessary references. I added a XamRibbon in the Window1.xaml file. It showed up just fine.
    Next I created a folder "Styles" within the project and copied the the following files from the Infragistics DefaultStyles folder:

    * RibbonGeneric.xaml
    * RibbonOffice2k7Blue.xaml
    * RibbonOffice2k7Brushes__Shared.xaml
    * RibbonOffice2k7Brushes_Blue.xaml

    I added the following snippet to Window1.xaml:

        <Window.Resources>
            <ResourceDictionary>
                <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                    <ResourceDictionary Source="Styles/RibbonOffice2k7Blue.xaml"/>
                </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
            </ResourceDictionary>
        </Window.Resources>
       
    Now the Designer (Visual Studio) can't open the design view of Window1. Instead I get a bunch of error messages. All saying:

    No constructor for type 'RelativeSource' has 3 parameters.

    Surprisingly (at least for me) Expression Bleand can handle that, as it opens Window1 just fine. (Thanks for the hint, Grant)
    But I want to open the design view within Visual Studio.

    Here is an example line, the compiler complains about:

    Binding="{Binding Path=IsBelowRibbon, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, {x:Type igRibbon:QuickAccessToolbar}, 1}}"

    So I fixed all the lines to something like this:

    Binding="{Binding Path=IsBelowRibbon, RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, AncestorType={x:Type igRibbon:QuickAccessToolbar}, AncestorLevel=1}}"

    Now I have to fix the reference to the ApplicationMenu image.

    And the next error I get is in line 768 of RibbonGeneric.xaml:
    Value 'igRibbon:ButtonTool.SizingMode' cannot be assigned to property 'Property'. Invalid PropertyDescriptor value.

    I hope this helps.

    Ciao

    http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/3915/20358.aspx#20358

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