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Re: Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:40:20 GMT

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

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Terri Simon — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:10 GMT

Very helpful video!

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

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:11:22 GMT

Hey Vicky

Thanks :)

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

Cheers
Daniel

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

SpeckleNoise — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:00:49 GMT

Hey Daniel,

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! :)

Best,
Vicky

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:15:31 GMT

Hi jolcrews

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

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

jolcrews — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:34:57 GMT

good webcast! Question: if I use the Ribbon designer then export to XML will I still be able to use the Globals.Ribbons.Ribbon1 reference?

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:18:13 GMT

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.

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

cush4x1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:51:18 GMT

Finally got it to work. I believe it was my "very locked down" version of Vista.

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?

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:51:17 GMT

I am sorry I was right. Remember to try the cool ribbon customisation once you get your installation fixed :)

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

cush4x1 — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:59 GMT

You are right. I created a new Office Addin...did nothing...F5...and get the same error. I also repaired my install and I still get the same error. I will take it up elsewhere as you suggested.

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

Daniel Moth — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:39:30 GMT

Thank you for watching.

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!

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

cush4x1 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:04:33 GMT

Thanks for the video.

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

Exception reading manifest from http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16

Good luck!

Cheers
Daniel

Re: Office Ribbon Customisation in Visual Studio 2008

em19at — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:48:30 GMT

Hi Daniel,
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