I'm developing an outlook addin using Addin Express Library. I'm currently using the adxribboncontrol.I need to implement ability to search the control based on user input.For a normal winforms control this can be easily implemented as suggested in this SO question Selecting an item in comboBox by typing
But i dont know how to implment this is office ribbon control.The control does not have the relavent properties.How can i get over this issue.
The Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI), nor Add-in Express, doesn't provide anything for that. It is not possible on the ribbon. It has a limited number of controls.
Instead, I'd suggest creating a view/form region in Outlook where you can place any .net controls with the required functionality. See Advanced Outlook view and form regions for more information.
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How can one programmatically determine if an Outlook ribbon is displayed in Simplified or Classic mode? Is there a related property and/or event which a VSTO add-in can access? Have not been able to find any info on this. This would be used to adjust the label and image of our ribbon buttons depending on the ribbon mode via the callbacks provided in our ribbon XML declarations. But maybe there is another way to do this?
I am working on an Outlook-AddIn where I have a RibbonDropDown filled with entries from a list. Since there will be a lot of entries, I want the user to be able to select/search an item by typing the entry. Up to now it's only possible to 'search' for the first letter by typing.
Any ideas on how to achieve this? I tried ComboBox but somehow I failed as I want the user to ONLY be allowed to select available entries and I need to get the selected label afterwards as based on that other buttons/DropDowns will become available.
Thanks!
Office Ribbon controls do not implement this functionality. You can display a window with your own control after a user clicks your ribbon button.
The Fluent UI provides a definiteve set of controls, none of which provides the required functinality. Read more about the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) in the following series of articles:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
As a workaround you may consider adding an Outlook form region where you can implement all what you need. See Creating Outlook Form Regions for more information.
You may find Advanced Outlook view and form regions helpful.
I'm making a Custom Task Pane for MS Word using Visual Studio (C#), and would like to add an option to the drop-down menu that, as far as I can tell, appears on all such task-panes. This is the menu I mean.
Is there a way to add an option to the default "Move, Size, Close"?
Sorry, but no, you cannot do this.
The Office add-in model is such that you only control the web application portion of the experience. Everything else is controlled by Office.
With the new web-based add-in model, you have much less control over Office itself than previous models.
Good morning,
my company is looking for a solution in order to distribute an add-in for Outlook 2013 that add a button in the ribbon. I want to create an add-in for Outlook 2013 and I saw that is possible using Visual Studio (I use VS 2013 or 2010) but I don't understand how to add a button in the ribbon (in particular in Home section) and execute a macro when I click on the button (the macro is already created). I read this tutorial https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668191.aspx and this worked. Someone can help me with some piece of code(c#)?
Thanks for your help
VSTO provides two main ways for customizing the Ribbon UI:
Using the Ribbon designer. See Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Tab by Using the Ribbon Designer for more information.
Using the Ribbon XML markup. See Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Tab by Using Ribbon XML for more information.
You need to specify the idMso attribute of the built-in tab if you need to add your custom controls there. See Office 2013 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers for control IDs.
Finally, I'd suggest moving your VBA macro to the add-in. It will improve the overall performance and allows to use the BCL classes (a wide varioety of controls and components) for getting the job done. Moveover, you will be able to deplay the add-in easily. VBA macros are not designed for deployiong on multiple PCs.
Is there any way how can I associate custom ribbon (custom tabs and buttons I created in VS designer) with a custom form region?
I know that I can extend the existing windows with my ribbon (such as Compose message, Contacts...), but how can I create a new tab with custom ribbons at the top and custom form region at the bottom. Do I have to create a custom message class?
Thanks.
You have to create a custom message class. Basically the ribbon and the form are two seperate mechanisms.
What you could try though, if its important for you, is invalidating the ribbon on activation of your form region and then programmatically update the ribbon according to your needs (dynamic updating of the ribbon at msdn).
If you mean it the other way around (showing a certain form region when your ribbon tab is activated) then you can't have it: there are no events/callbacks for the ribbon tabs being changed.
I have been trying to solve this issue and as Georg said the two are quite separate and behave very differently, so bringing them into line to make them appear like they are related is quite difficult.
You can have a look at my example twitter app at http://vstocontrib.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/b35f26fdca15#src%2fDemos%2fTwitterFeedCore%2fTwitterFeed%2fContactFeed.cs
It relies on my VSTO contrib project, but it should allow you to easily achieve what you want.