WPF Ribbon - Hide quick access toolbar

Question

how do you hide Quick Access Toolbar in a WPF's Ribbon?

Answer 1

For Microsoft Ribbon for WPF, you can hide it by using the VisualTreeHelper. On the Loaded event handler, just resize the row containing the Quick Access Toolbar to 0 :

private void RibbonLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  Grid child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild((DependencyObject)sender, 0) as Grid;
  if (child != null)
  {
    child.RowDefinitions[0].Height = new GridLength(0);
  }
}

Answer 2

The Quick Access Toolbar is automatically hidden when the Ribbon control is in a RibbonWindow. When it is not, it seems impossible to hide it. I have already worked hours on this issue and was unable to hide it properly. But there is one simple workaround: Place the Ribbon control inside of a Panel and give it a negative top margin so it will slide outside of the Panel. Set the Panel's ClipToBounds property to true and the QAT will be hidden. By the way - there are multiple Ribbon implementations for WPF, even by Microsoft themselves ("Fluent Ribbon" and "Microsoft Ribbon for WPF"), so next time you should mention which one you are talking about.