How can I use several windows by Ribbon?

Can I use the Windows Ribbon UI on Windows XP? how?

• I understand from reading http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/arik/archive/2009/09/03/windows-ribbon-for-winforms-part-1-introduction.aspx that the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd316910%28VS.85%29.aspx is a COM object in Windows 7, and the http://windowsribbon.codeplex.com is just a .NET veneer around that, to allow the Ribbon UI to be used in Windows Forms applications. I've been successful in implementing a Hello World Windows Form app that employs this wrapper: It is running on my development machine, which is Windows7. Questions: Will this "hello, world" application run on Vista? XP? Do I need to download something onto those machines in order to make that happen? Is there a way to specify the Windows Ribbon UI components as a pre-requisite, in an MSI installer? Thanks Browsing around I found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd742706%28v=vs.85%29.aspx, which is the DLL on Windows7 that delivers the Ribbon UI. It lists these as minimum supported clients: Windows 7, Windows Vista with SP2 and Platform Update for Windows Vista how would I check for that in an MSI ?

• Answer:

  Best I can tell, you are taking on a dependency that won't work on Windows XP. This doesn't seem to be a redistributable component ( although I will admit hacking on a VM trying to see if I could transplant it into an XP machine ). Since it isn't redistributable, I'm not sure there's any point in doing a search in MSI as you can just rely on checking the OS Major version ( Win7 ).