How to: Load a Ribbon Resource from an MFC Application

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;

1. 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)