How to: Load a Ribbon Resource from an MFC Application

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To use the ribbon resource in your application, modify the application to load the ribbon resource.

To load a ribbon resource

1. Declare the Ribbon Control object in the CMainFrame class.

   CMFCRibbonBar m_wndRibbonBar;   

2. In CMainFrame::OnCreate, create and initialize the Ribbon Control.

   if (!m_wndRibbonBar.Create (this))  
{  
   return -1;  
}  

   if (!m_wndRibbonBar.LoadFromResource(IDR_RIBBON))  
{  
   return -1;  
}  

See Also

Ribbon Designer (MFC)