Microsoft Ribbon´s RibbonWindow disables visual styles

Question

i just tried to use "RibbonWindow" to integrate my ribbon menu into the window. But now, if i start the program, it looks like punched with a glitchy classic-style.

This is, how it should look like: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/pfgok.png/

and this is how it looks like: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/840/pfgfail.png/

Why is this so? Thanks :)

Answer 1

Found the reason. This is a known defect in the pre .Net 4.5 release. Details can be found on connect.microsoft.com:

.NET 4.5 WPF RibbonWindow broken in VS2012

This should be fixed in the final release.

Answer 2

Try setting Window Class to RibbonWindow as in example