Hi I've been tinkering around with the two techniques to modify the ribbon with an MS Word addin (Visual Studio 2010, .NET 3.5), a Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.OfficeRibbon and Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonExtensibility. I was hoping to switch between the two in my addin's CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject, but for some reason it is not ...
I'm working on outlook 2007 VSTO Addin.I have added a Ribbon with a button. I am trying to raise an event on button click.On NewInspector event of Application.Inspectors collection I should be able to hook on to this ribbon event in the Presenter. The questions is how to get hold of Ribbon of Inspector opened. I tried Globals.Ribbons.My...
As part of my Outlook Addin I would like to add a control to the Ribbon which has the same format as the 'Home\Quick Steps' and 'View\Arrangement' controls. Does anyone know if these can be created by Addins? ...
I want to create a custom ribbon button within Outlook 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Standard, but am unsure how to proceed. Most of the resources I've found mention VS 2008 Pro, and this SO answer mentions that VSTO is not even included in Standard. Is creating custom ribbon buttons possible using Visual Studio 2008 Standard? If so, ...
I am looking for Ribbon which supported MDI. No matter for windows form or wpf. Thanks in advance for help ...
I'm having trouble using the Ribbon control from the Office 2007 RibbonControlsLibrary.dll. It works for most people but not for me. The fault I get is: Cannot create instance of 'Ribbon' defined in assembly 'RibbonControlsLibrary, Version=3.5.31016.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'. Exception has been thrown by the ...
I want to disable and NOT hide a ribbon button (specifically Ribbon.ListItem.New.NewListItem) on a particular List type. On web I could find a lot many posts showing me ways to remove/hide buttons but none really worthwhile which could tell me how can I just disable an alrteady existing sharepoint button in my custom List type. e.g. Fol...
For a new project, I'm writing an administrative tool as a client software. So far, I've only written some small winforms application with a 'old-lookin' GUI. I'm thinking of something fresh, new looking like ribbon based design. The questions that come into my mind are: 1) Should I prefer WPF over Winforms for a ribbon based GUI(thou...
How can I add Vertical separator to WPF Ribbon, to RibbonGroup? I have tried something like that, but i got horizontal separator istead of vertical. <r:RibbonGroup> <r:RibbonButton Command="{StaticResource SomeButton}" /> <r:RibbonSeparator></r:RibbonSeparator> <r:RibbonToggleButton IsChecked="False" Command="{StaticResource Ano...
Hi all, It is rumoured that WPF 4.0 would deliver us an out-of-the-box Office Ribbon. A new WPF Ribbon Control will be available for download shortly after the release of WPF 4. [1] Now my internet and MSDN search turned out to be fruitless, and as far as I know, it would be release after the .NET 4.0 framework would launch. ...
I'm new to WPF programming and decided to give it a shot by trying out the some ribbon control libraries. The library that looks best for now is the Microsoft RibbonControlsLibrary. You can get it on the ribbon licensing page. So far I've started a new project, added the control to the windows, but them I'm stuck: This is the code so fa...
Hi, I am just wondering whether anyone knows where I can get a compiled version of Windows Ribbon for WinForms 2.2? I can only download the source from the website and as I don't have the Windows 7 SDK (and can't download) I can't compile it. ...
Hi, I'm looking for a WPF prism with ribbon application samples and tutorials. I have found many that cover prism or ribbon but only a few sources provide any information about implementating those two together in one application. No course code usually in available tough. An example with a few simple modules and a classical ribbon tab c...
Dear All, I would like to access to the user selected color in a color pallete added to a Ribbon bar. By now I have created the Ribbon button, added it to the panel, added an event to handle the "click" on that button and overwritten the OnEraseBkgnd(CDC* pDC) in my view class. I present some code snippets. I at this stage I am not abl...
Hello, I need help with my vb.net program. I've added a ribbon bar to the top of my main form using the DotNetBar and the problem is that it shows a black rectangle area instead of the default blue color. This only happens when I am using Windows 7 aero and is not maximized. Anyone have any suggestions? ...
Hi there. I'm using the Microsofts RibbonControlLibrary for a Ribbonmenu with several RibbonCommands. I have a TabControl that should contain tabs for each ribbon button pressed. E.g. I click on RibbonCommand 2, I want a tab called "Tab2" be created, if it is not already present in the TabControl, otherwise it should be focused. I've al...
I have a custom Tab I have created. How can I use VBA to change the attributes of the controls on the tab. For example, I would like to change the label of a button with id="menubutton" depending on user seelctions in the program. It seems to me that it should be easy but I am struggling with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ...
Hi, I need to put an image and text to WPF Ribbon Menu. I have tried few things but all I can get are empty buttons in Ribbon Menu. I am using .NET framework 3.5. Part of my not working code is here: <r:Ribbon.ApplicationMenu> <r:RibbonApplicationMenu Command="{StaticResource ApplicationMenuCommand}"> <r:RibbonA...
How do I change the color of the Fluent Ribbon UI backstage menu which is – by default – blue? ...
Hello, I'm just creating a multiplatform e-mail client in Java, and I want to use Ribbon UI using Flamingo Ribbon Component (you can see WebStart demo here: https://substance-flamingo.dev.java.net/webstart/testRibbon.jnlp). However, I noticed that Microsoft have some license on their Ribbon UI. Can anybody please tell me if is it 'legal'...