I have a custom Ribbon Split button in outlook. I ideally want to invoke the top button of the split button(not the drop down) from my outlook Add-in. To do that I got the control of split button using Redemption and when i try to execute it I am getting IAccessible Error.I am able to invoke any other normal button with this approach. I googled around all things but not able to find the solution. Any help or suggestion will be of great help. below code shows how I got the control of button
Redemption.SafeRibbonControl newControl = cRibbon.Controls.Item("Add With Template");
newControl.Execute();
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I'm using this third party control
http://officeribbon.codeplex.com/documentation
and i can't find the event when the tab is clicked
example picture:
what i want is to fire an event(execute some code) when file tab is clicked
and fire an event(execute some code) when Tags tab is clicked.
and what event do i need? i tried the events. but it doesnt work
im using c# 2010
i would suggest you can use inbuilt ribbon . these have all the functionality what we need , two type ribbons are available xml and visual designer . visual designer is easy to handle , work same like asp.net or winform control . Hope it will help if not so show your code.
I've created a custom add in for Outlook 2010. When I hover over the button, there's a help section with a cog image that says Press F1 for Add-in Help. I would like to remove this so it's not visible when the user hovers over the button but can't find where/how to do so.
The Office extensibility model doesn't provide anything for that. You can try to use Windows API functions to get the job done.
We use a 3rd party Excel Addin to populate data in an Excel worksheet. I've been given the task of writing a C# app (WinForms or VSTO) that will automatically click the Ribbon button and process the data.
The problem is I can't find any way to automate clicking the Ribbon button (on the Add-ins tab) using C# code.
I've also tried using Win32 API's to send key presses to the parent Excel window (using SendMessage), but the Key presses weren't received. (I checked using Spy++).
And looked at the public methods exposed in the Add-in assembly, but it didn't contain any public methods to do the same as clicking the ribbon button.
Does anyone know how I can click a ribbon button in the Excel (add-ins) ribbon using C# code?
Look at the SendKeys method of the Excel Application class. It allows you to send the keys directly to Excel. You can press the Alt key to see which shortcuts are assigned to which buttons / ribbon tabs. I automated some tests using this and it worked fine.
If you needed even more complex things you could also look into Sikuli. It's based on image recognition and is using Java.Robots class for sending keypresses and clicks. Automating UI tasks is quite easy with it.
I'm developing an add-in in c# for outlook's 2007 and 2010.
Lets say I have Outlook.MailItem object of currently displayed mail and I want to replace part of the mail text with buttons, that would call an internal add-in function (passing some parameters of course). Is that even possible to make that callback to add-in function? If yes then could you guys put me on the right track, because I can't seem to find anything related to this.
To my knowledge, you cannot add buttons to the MailItem.Body. The best you could do is add items to the Ribbon UI based upon the message body's content. There are also similar methods using custom Task Panes and Form Regions.
You can try working with the Word Editor directly, but I have not tried that path.
Outlook.Inspector inspector = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveInspector();
Word.Document document = (Word.Document)inspector.WordEditor;
I have created an Outlook Add-In that adds a button to the ribbon of a new email window, but it's causing a problem.
Here is what happens:
User has Outlook Open.
User opens Excel.
User sends excel document to someone via File->Save and Send->Send as Attachment
User makes a change to the document
User attempts to close the document
This is when Outlook prompts the user to save the file, but the dialog box is hidden behind the Excel window and the user can't get to it without doing some shenanigans.
My Outlook Add-in does many other things, but I've pinned it down to the Ribbon.cs file I created to add a button to the new email window. When I change the RibbonType property of the OfficeRibbon object from Micorosft.Outlook.Mail.Compose to nothing, the Save Dialog shows as it should. When I change it back to "Compose", it hides the dialog box again.
Does anyone know of any way around this? I have confirmed this happens when the project is either an Outlook 2007 Add-In or an Outlook 2010 Add-In.
Thanks in advance.
So in reference to the link sent by user1217053 the answer would probably be along the lines of...
create a class scope field for the Outlook.Mailitem
have it bind to the BeforeClose event.
Inside the BeforeClose event handler for this field, add code such as ...
cMailItem_BeforeClose(bool Cancel)
{
var Insp = cMailItem.GetInspector();
Insp.Close();
Marshal.FinalReleaseCOMObject(Insp);
Insp = null;
}
Then hopefully this will get rid of the shadow inspector.
I dont know if you are still working on with this problem or not, but I faced the exact same problem and then found the solution. You must be using the Ribbon designer just like I was. The ribbon designer cause this problem. I had to change from Ribbon designer to Ribbon XML. It was a little bit of work to remove code and change some logic, but that fixed the problem. I heard the other altenative is to use a wrapper class.
Hope this helps.