Collapse an entire Tab

Hi Luis,

Could you go into a bit more detail on where you are placing this code or perhaps even email over a small sample project that shows this? Thanks!

It's very easy to get the error. All you have to do is create a new WPF project in Visual Studio 2005 and add ActiProSoftware references. Put then this xaml page as start page instead of default xaml page:

<Window x:Class="TestRibbon.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="TestRibbon"
xmlns:ribbon="http://schemas.actiprosoftware.com/winfx/xaml/ribbon"
x:Name="Window" Width="1024" Height="768">

<Grid>
<ribbon:Ribbon Grid.Row="0" >
<ribbon:Ribbon.Tabs>
<ribbon:Tab Label="Edit" KeyTipAccessText="E" x:Name="tiEdit" Visibility="Collapsed"/>
<ribbon:Tab Label="View" KeyTipAccessText="V" x:Name="tiView"/>
<ribbon:Tab Label="Help" KeyTipAccessText="H" x:Name="tiHelp"/>
</ribbon:Ribbon.Tabs>
</ribbon:Ribbon>
</Grid>
</Window>

Run the application and... you should get an error.
Try then without Visibility="Collapsed" or change its value to "Hidden". It should works fine.

Of course you can try programatically: remove Visibility="Collapsed" and put code below as Window1 class constructor. Note that the only chage is to add a line below InitializeComponent.

public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
tiEdit.Visibility = Visibility.Collapsed; // hide Edit tab
}

Our pourpose is to show an application menu based on user access rights, so we need to hide menu items where user can not access. To hide items we want to use te Collapsed but it seems that ribbon:Tab does not support this value for its Visibility attribute.

Ahh, we already had made a change that corrects this. That's why I couldn't duplicate it. :) It will be in the upcoming maintenance release.