WPF with Ribbon and Data Grids

This presentation demonstrated how WPF now can support for Ribbon and DataGrid out of the .Net box (in .Net4.0)


The WPF Data grid control
Available in the WPF Toolkit (found on the WPF CodePlex site)

The WPF Ribbon control
As it is WPF, the Ribbon setup is moved out of the code (as in WinForms) and into the XAML config files (used by WPF). To get to the WPF ribbon control, it requries Office UI licencing
It supports both dynamic rezing (with configurable rules), QuickAccess toolbar, The Application menu, contextual tabs and 'Skins'/styling templates.

VS2010 will have much more support for WPF development than VS2008.
Typically tooling that will provide drag/drop/property/visual editors that replaces manual editing of the XAML definitions. An early version of this was demonstrated in the session.