UWP Menu Bar Control

This project is no longer maintained as Microsoft made an official one

This project aims to reimplement the classic menu bar component as a UWP library.

To install, use the following command in the Package Manager Console

Install-Package Rymate.Controls.UWPMenuBar -Pre

Currently the library has the following features:

Menu Bar

The main component is the Menu Bar, which defines a container which can hold Menu Bar buttons, and an optional area which can be used as a drag area for a title bar. It also holds the hover behaviour for opening menu bar items on hover when another one is opened.

<lib:MenuBar Grid.Row="0" Title="UWP MenuBar Demo" x:Name="MenuBar"
             VerticalAlignment="Top" Background="{x:Bind ViewModel.AccentColor}"
             Foreground="White" >
			 
             <!-- items here -->
			 
</lib:MenuBar>

Using as a title bar

Once you've extended the window view into the title bar, you can turn the menu bar into the draggable area using thre DragArea property

Window.Current.SetTitleBar(MenuBar.DragArea);

This ensures you can still use the buttons in the menu bar.

Menu Bar Buttons

These can either have a dropdown (like a menu bar) or are standalone buttons, which can be used for revealing a SplitView. They're also AccessKey aware, meaning users can activate them via alt + access key.

Additionally, they can either display a label or an icon from the built in Segoe MDL2 icon font.

<lib:MenuBarButton ButtonContent="View" AccessKey="v">
    <!--items here-->
</lib:MenuBarButton>

<lib:MenuBarButton DisableDropdown="True" ButtonContent="&#xE700;"
                   Icon="True" AccessKey="s" />

Menu Bar Item / Menu Bar Toggle Item

These are essentially very small wrappers that wrap the equivalent MenuFlyoutItem in order to reduce the default padding on them.

The padding can be increased / decreased via the normal methods still.