I need to develop an Outlook 2010 add-in and I am new to Visual Studio and C#. I am using Visual Studio 2010 and I've created a project using built-in Outlook 2010 add-in template. I've created a new ribbon and I would like to trigger an event handler when a user selects the ribbon tab. Is that possible? If yes, then what objects and what events should I use? I'd like to have some guidelines on what to do, like a sequence of instructions, 'cause I don't know where to start, really.
Well first of i can help you there but step by step i can suggest a few links that have tutorials on doing this.
But to answer if you can trigger an event if you select the ribbon tab, yes this can be done in C# its usually .focus event.
First of lets say the code might be like this your ribbon name lets say is
Ribbon ribbon1=new ribbon();
if(ribbon.focus()==true)
{
messagebox.show();
}
well i hope u get the idea these are the links that you 'might' :-) have missed
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226712%28v=office.12%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163403.aspx
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Hey all I have been searching Google for a while now trying to find anything on how to go about setting up you're own button on the VS toolbar.
What I am talking about is this:
And when I click on that button I would like to be able to execute some C# code.
As an example, say I had the word "HELLO" highlighted and I pushed on that button on the toolbar and I wrote some code behind it that, when pressed, have whatever is highlighted turn bold and change color from normal BLACK to .
I was originally thinking that it was called Visual Studio Extensibility Tools but that doesn't seem to be what I am looking for here - it seemed more as a Nuget plugin type of thing?
I'm looking for more like what you can do with the Office suite of products within VS addins - As in make a button for Outlooks toolbar, etc..
The only remotely close thing I could find so far would be this.
If anyone has done this before or at least know what to search for then please let me know!
You were on the right track with Visual Studio Extensiblilty tools.
There are several steps.
Create the Toolbar and add the button.
Create the event handler that runs when the button is clicked.
Determine what document has focus (c# doc, xml doc, vb doc, etc.)
Determine what is selected in the document.
Change the code formatting
Start with an overview of the Extensions SDK.
Here's how to create a toolbar with the VS extensions.
Creating a Toolbar for the IDE
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.
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.
I need to build a visual studion Addin to intercept the click on the standard button "Add Attachement" in outlook 2010. Could someone give me some tips to achieve it ?
Check out the MailItem.BeforeAttachmentAdd Event
Here is the Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff869219(v=office.14).aspx
The link also provides several events you can hook into related to attachments.
I have looked at several tutorials on writing general Outlook add-ins, and have gotten simple examples to work: items in menu, context menu, ribbons, etc.
Many of Microsoft's documentation has send me in circles, or is in VB, so I have run into some questions with what we are trying to accomplish.
Is there a way to add a custom control below the Subject line in a new email? We need to supply a drop-down and add an additional header to emails sent for email tracking. Right now the best I have gotten is adding a CommandBarButton in the "Add-ins" tab of the Ribbon, is there a better method?
Will we run into any issues installing for multiple versions of outlook? (Will only 2007 and higher work?)
Can you host WPF controls directly in a Ribbon, etc.? I know that WPF popup windows work just fine when shown from a CommandBarButton.
Are there some good links out there for what we're trying to do?
2: Multi-version support is a PITA. The hedge-your-bets approach is to develop on a PC running the version of Outlook you want to support; thus you may have multiple setup packages for each supported version. Everybody tries to get around this though, but I've used this approach with success:
Version-Specific UI in Add-ins - Andrew Whitechapel - Site Home - MSDN Blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/andreww/archive/2008/09/02/version-specific-ui-in-add-ins.aspx
4: Essential resources:
Visual Studio Tools for Office For Office and Outlook for Developers Forums on MSDN
OutlookCode.com
(FYI, I work for Add-in Express)
No, not without implementing the entire message window.
We have to make 2 projects for 2007 and 2010, we are skipping 2003 and below b/c it is much more difficult and would be rarely used.
Can't host WPF in a Ribbon, we're going to display a WPF popup from a Ribbon button press.
Best thing I've found is to just follow the project template in Visual Studio and mess around.
Overall, our add-in is going to do the following:
Make 2 projects for 2010 and 2007 that share a "Shared" assembly
All reusable work is done in the shared assembly
WPF is only displayed via popup windows (you can do a custom task pane, but it doesn't make sense for our add-in)