Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/258319_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: Explore Ribbon customisation. If you are a managed developer (e.g. Windows Forms) then you'll find that you already have the skills for extending Microsoft Office applications with your code. Visual Studio 2008 makes it really easy and that is what I demonstrate in this 20' video. For other resources, start at my blog post here. Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here. en Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:41 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:41 GMT Rev9 Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 I just looked at your interesting Ribbon Designer screencast. But there's one more thing I want to know: By designing ribbon tabs using the Ribbon Designer, how can one use the same Ribbon Tab (and maybe also the same Group) in different add-ins? Up to now I was doing that with Ribbon XML by defining a namespace and a qualified ID ("idQ") for the tab (or the group), but I don't know how to do that by using the Ribbon Designer.
Thanks and regards
Ewald

posted by em19at

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633322937100000000 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:48:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633322937100000000 em19at Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
Thanks for watching. Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question off the top of my head without investigating.

For generic VSTO questions, I hope you don't mind posting to the dedicated VSTO forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16

Good luck!

Cheers
Daniel

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633323039640000000 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:39:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633323039640000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 Thanks for the video.

I am following along...added a ribbon (visual designer)....F5...and get the following error:

Exception reading manifest from file:///[stuff]/ExcelAddIn1.vsto: the manifest may not be valid or the file could not be opened.

...and then the exception text...Deployment manifest is not semantically valid

...Deployment manifest requires that you specify a publisher and a product

Any ideas?

posted by cush4x1

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633323882730000000 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:04:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633323882730000000 cush4x1 Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
Hmm... Assuming you are trying all this on the RTM of Visual Studio 2008 and you are building at a file location where you have access rights, I'd guess you have a bad installation.

In fact, I suspect even without a ribbon you cannot F5 the VSTO project. I believe that the errors you are getting are related to ClickOnce which we are not explicilty using in this video.

Either way, please post this to the VSTO forums where you will get the proper assistance rather than my guesses and suspicions.

Good luck!

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633324479700000000 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:39:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633324479700000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 posted by cush4x1

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633324753590000000 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633324753590000000 cush4x1 Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633325350770000000 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:51:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633325350770000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
In the last minute of your video, you mention that within the OutlookAddIn, RibbonType, the user can select which outlook inspectors to have the ribbon invoked.

Since Word, excel and powerpoint are in this list, can I infer that my ribbon - designed here - will be available within word/exce/powerpoint?

posted by cush4x1

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633347274780000000 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:51:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633347274780000000 cush4x1 Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 Glad you got it working. Regarding your additional question, sorry I am not sure what you can infer because I haven't personally tried the scenario you propose. Please post your question to the forums I mentioned further up and let me know if you don't get an answer.

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633353590930000000 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:18:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633353590930000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

posted by jolcrews

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633354032970000000 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:34:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633354032970000000 jolcrews Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
Thanks for watching. Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question off the top of my head without investigating.

For generic VSTO questions, I hope you don't mind posting to the dedicated VSTO forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16

Good luck!

Cheers
Daniel

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633354345310000000 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:15:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633354345310000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
Nice video!

I have a question: Can I use and include "Ribbons" in my MFC applications also!?

I hope I am not asking too much! Smiley

Best,
Vicky

posted by SpeckleNoise

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633435012490000000 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:00:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633435012490000000 SpeckleNoise Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
Thanks Smiley

You can use a Ribbon style UI in MFC if you download the VC++ 2008 Feature Pack.

Cheers
Daniel

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633435198820000000 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:11:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633435198820000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008
When you change over to using the XML for the ribbon, custom images don't follow along. I understand that has to do with the way the information is stored. I added image information to my XML, but cannot get the icon to show up (I've tried with both a jpg and an ico file). I'm not sure if I need to write a callback or not, and haven't been able to figure out how to associate a callback with the button. Here is my XML. Note that I have tried naming the image with and without file extensions and also tried using a path. The image file is a resource in my project.

<button id="ConvertToPDF" label="Convert To PDF" image="Icon1" size="large" showImage="true" onAction="ConvertToPDFClick"/>

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-Terri

posted by terrics

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633772402300000000 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633772402300000000 terrics Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

terrics, sorry I don't know. Please post questions to the VSTO forums where you will get the proper assistance.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/threads

 

Cheers

Daniel

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633933060190000000 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:40:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633933060190000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 G'day Daniel,

If I was in the UK I would come and kiss you Big Smile

 

I have been tearing my hair out for the last 4 days trying to work out how to add an extra tab in Word and then place some buttons in there to open up our standard word templates. Even thou your video is based on Excel, I was able to work out the Word side of things... After watching your video I was able to do excately what I wanted within 1/2 an hour.

 

I do have a question thou, is the add-in you shown in your video user based or computer based? Basically I have created my add-in, how would I distribute the add-in to 100 computers?

 

Again thank you so much...

 

Cheers

Stewy

posted by Matrix IT

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633984139390000000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:32:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633984139390000000 Matrix IT Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 Hi Stewy

 

Thanks for the sentiment… I think Smiley

 

Glad the video was useful. May I suggest that you use the free online forums for VSTO questions please:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/threads

 

Good luck!

 

Cheers

Daniel

posted by Daniel Moth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633992224300000000 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:07:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c633992224300000000 Daniel Moth Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008 How about a video on managing multiple ribbons.  For instance if I were to open one document read only the ribbon would disable certain items versus if I opened a non-readonly document.  Or maybe you can point me to some resources for this?

posted by madaboutaddins

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c634094683410000000 Fri, 14 May 2010 21:12:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DanielMoth/Office-Ribbon-Customisation-in-Visual-Studio-2008#c634094683410000000 madaboutaddins