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.
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I am working in excel VSTO add-in.
In excel, having built-in tabs, groups, and controls in the ribbon. I need to get the list of built-in controls under the View tab in c#. From that list, I need to set the value of visible/enable property for the controls.
Is there any way to achieve this?
You can't manage built-in controls on the ribbon. The best what you could do is to repurpose built-in controls or build the ribbon from scratch. Read more about repurposing built-in controls in the Temporarily Repurpose Commands on the Office Fluent Ribbon article.
The Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) is described in depth 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)
See Office 2016 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers for ribbon controls IDs.
how can I add custom button to Outlook send mail form window ?
actually how to achive new mail form window in Application object properties ?
I try NewInspector event with but the event parameter have self inspector but inspector does not have CommandBars object !!
please help
thanks
CommandBars were deprecated. You need to use the Fluent UI for creating a custom UI in Outlook. VSTO provides two main ways for customizing the UI in Outlook:
Walkthrough: Create a custom tab by using Ribbon XML
Walkthrough: Create a custom tab by using the Ribbon Designer
Note, you can design a custom UI using the designer and then export it into an XML markup. See How to: Export a ribbon from the Ribbon Designer to Ribbon XML for more information.
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)
The only way to add a ribbon button in the current versions of Outlook is through the IRibbonExtensibility interface implemented by your COM addin.
VSTO makes it easier, but the underlying mechanism is still the same.
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.
need to add ribbon button on highlighted place(button 1 and button 2) in the appointment/meeting screen(see the link for image) of outlook near the Alldayevent checkbox?
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That area is not customizable, at least not using any public Outlook API.
You can add a custom UI to the ribbon only. The Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) is described in depth 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)
Also, you may consider creating a form under the ribbon/subject field on your own subclassing Outlook windows. Read more about that on the Creating Adjacent Windows In Outlook page.
FYI Add-in Express provides the TopSubPane layout out of the box which allows placing like shown on the screenshot:
I'm developing my first add in in Sharepoint for office 2013.
I cant find a way to add a color picker without opening a dialogue box.
I want the color picker in the ribbon, like in the MS-Paint.
There is no such control. The Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) does provide a limited set of controls that you can use for custom UI in Office add-in. You can read more about the Ribbon UI in the following series of articles in MSDN:
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)
I ended up updating the designer.cs class. adding the required buttons via code in constructor.