All ribbon tab controls have to be contained in a ribbon group. Add another ADXRibbonTab component and set its Ribbons property to OutlookExplorer. Next, let’s look at the controls that can be added to a ribbon tab. This will cause the tab to only show when the user selects an appointment in the Outlook calendar as illustrated in the following screenshot.Īdding various controls to a custom Office 2010 ribbon tab Setting the Ribbons property to OutlookMailRead and the Context property to OutlookItem.TabSetAttachments will cause your ribbon tab to only show when the user opens an e-mail and clicks on an attachment.Īdd another ADXRibbonTab component, and set its Ribbons property to OutlookExplorer and its Context property to Outlook.TabSetAppointment. Before, we add controls to our new Ribbon, I would like to draw your attention to the tab’s Ribbons and Context properties.

Creating custom contextual Office 2010 ribbon tabsĪdd a new ADXRibbonTab component to the AddinModule designer by clicking on its toolbar button. Select your programming language of choice, Microsoft Office 2010 as the minimum version our add-in will support and Microsoft Outlook as the supported application. To get started, open Visual Studio and create a new ADX COM Add-in project. I am using Add-in Express 2010 for Office and net.

In today’s post we’ll take a closer look at the Office 2010 Fluent Ribbon UI as well as various ways you can customize it to fit your needs. The Microsoft Office Ribbon is probably one component we all use in almost every MS Office add-in.

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