VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

XL-Dennis — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:13:03 GMT

Sounds interesting. How does the generated XML look like?

Do we still have the option to add an Ribbon Item?

Designer generated RibbonX xml

Paul Stubbs — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:49:14 GMT

Kathleen has posted about the new VSTO Ribbon designer being one of her favorite features. The Ribbon

VSTO "Orcas" Ribbon Designer

Paul Ballard's WebLog — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:17:41 GMT

Kathleen McGrath has a great blog post about her favorite feature in the upcoming "Orcas" release

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

kmcgrath — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:29:13 GMT

Dennis -- yes you can still add the Ribbon (XML) item and add your markup manually. The Ribbon designer makes it easier with drag and drop capabilities, etc. Paul Stubbs just posted a blog entry about how to export the Ribbon XML at http://blogs.msdn.com/pstubbs/archive/2007/05/09/designer-generated-ribbonx-xml.aspx

Kathleen

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

XL-Dennis — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:47:43 GMT

Great - It's getting better and better!!

Kind regards,

Dennis

re: VSTO for Mere Mortals

rogsonl — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:25:43 GMT

I am going through chapter 2 and you show an excel spreadsheet as part of the design view.

I am unable to reproduce this. I have written VSTO code, and it works for Excel, but have not been able to see the Excel file as part of the development environment.

Leon Rogson

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

kmcgrath — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:10:08 GMT

Hi Leon,

You need to have VSTO 2005 (not just VSTO 2005 SE) installed in order to see the Excel designer. If that's the case, and you're still not seeing the designer, please let me know.

--Kathleen

VSTO: My Favorite Feature -- Even Better in Beta 2!

Kathleen's Weblog — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:53:56 GMT

Recently, I posted an entry about my favorite VSTO feature : the Ribbon Designer. In Beta 2 of VSTO,

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

DaLub — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:18:59 GMT

Can the ribbon designer in Orcas be used to add a tab on the ribbon of the normal.dotm template?

Ribbon in VB6

Christian Havel — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:05:38 GMT

Hi Kathleen,

I create successfully a sample ribbon in VB6.

I try to attach a image to an label. Following the Ribbon definition:

"<tab id=""dotnetpro"" label=""C4B"">" & _

"<group id=""Vorlagen"" label=""Unmanaged Ribbon"">" & _

"<button id=""cmdVorlage"" label=""MSO8.dll und Ribbon"" onAction=""cmdVorlageOnAction"" getImage=""GetImage"" screentip=""Neues Dokument"" supertip=""Erzeugt ein neues Dokument auf Basis einer Vorlage.""/>" & _

"</group>" & _

"</tab>" & _

The following function is called:

Public Function GetImage(ByVal control As IRibbonControl) As IPictureDisp

Dim picture As IPictureDisp

Set picture = Nothing

Set picture = LoadPicture(App.Path & "\MSN.ICO")

Set GetImage = picture

End Function

The picture object is filled but I the image does not appears. Can you give me a small tip?

Thanks Christian

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

kmcgrath — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:21 GMT

Re adding a ribbon tab to Normal.dot -- with VSTO, you can create an application level add-in and customize the ribbon for any document that is opened. It is global to all documents, so there is no need to add the ribbon to Normal.dot.

Re creating a Ribbon customization using VB6, I haven't tried that. I've asked folks on the VSTO team, and was told that your code looks okay, so you might try checking the following to troubleshoot: Does the .ico file work correctly if specified statically in the XML? Does any other image file work with the code? Is the .ico file a transparent image? Is the path to the ico file correct?

--Kathleen

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

klooper — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:30:04 GMT

Hi Kathleen,

I just wanted to let you know that your blog is featured in RibbonX For Dummies by John Mueller -- the first book published on the subject of RibbonX programming in the VBA, C#, and Visual Basic environments. Please contact me if you would like a free review copy of the book.

Best regards,

Kyle Looper

Desenvolvimento de Ribbons para Office 2007.

Arquitetura de Soluções — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:47:20 GMT

Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Em ritmo de fim de ano e Tech-Ed Brasil 2007 , que começa amanhã, dia 05 de

Addins and Orcas...Part 2

Letz learn togather — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:14:34 GMT

Changing the default form of a folder One you have a replacement form region, this is the next thing

VSTO Addins and Orcas...Part 2

Noticias externas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:01 GMT

Changing the default form of a folder One you have a replacement form region, this is the next thing

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

punit.kumar@hcl.in — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:32:44 GMT

Hi Kathleen,

I am very new to this blog and more for developing application with VSTO.

Is Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 is mandatory for ribbon designer application.

Can't we develop such applications in Visual Studio 2008 with VSTO 2005 SE?

Thanks,

Punit

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

kmcgrath — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:05:16 GMT

Hi Punit,

Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) is not mandatory for customizing the Ribbon in Office 2007, but the new Ribbon designer makes it a lot easier! You can definitely customize the ribbon usng VSTO 2005 SE. See the following videos to get an idea about how to do so: http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2007/02/05/vsto-for-mere-mortals-video-customizing-the-ribbon-with-vsto-2005-se.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/kathleen/archive/2007/02/10/vsto-for-mere-mortals-video-customizing-built-in-tabs-on-the-ribbon.aspx.

--Kathleen

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

punit.kumar@hcl.in — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:25 GMT

I have to develop a addin application for word 2007 that require dynamic updation of menus, labels on Ribbon UI.

How we can handle the events on menus and other UI's in Visual studio 2005 with VSTO 2005 SE?

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

cpup22@gmail.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:08:55 GMT

Hi, I'm just curious whether or not these Ribbons will work for Project 2007? If not, is there something that is similar in comparison? I'll also be doing some adding of new functionality for Excel 2003... so maybe i use the same type of new item. Is it a UserControl? CustomControl? I got your book but it seems to focus on Excel, Word, Powerpoints, etc. and not on Project.

Thanks!!

Lisa Seacat

cpup22@gmail.com

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

kmcgrath — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:22:33 GMT

Hi Lisa,

VSTO 2005 (on which the book is based) only support application development for Word, Excel, Outlook and InfoPath. This latest version (VS 2008) supports a lot more Office applications.

Project 2007 doesn't have the new "Ribbon" UI, but instead uses the traditional menus and toolbar. Excel 2003 also has menus and toolbars (the Ribbon is new in some Office 2007 applications, such as Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

See the following Help topics for information on how to customize them:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/scff9c7c.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0batekf4.aspx

There's also information about how to do this in the book (customizing a menu and toolbar is pretty much the same for all Office applications that have them).

I hope this helps!

Kathleen

re: VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Ribbon Designer

jpaull — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:37:31 GMT

Hi.

Is there any way to remove the default tabs from the ribbon in Excel?

I need to open a "template" spreadsheet for my users and limit their editing abilities.

Thanks.