I am fairly new to C# as well as the Outlook Library.
I have created a custom group in Meeting Tab of Outlook, which has a button in it.
I also added an image in properties of Button(as displayed in the screenshot).
The image would represent the logo of my add-in. But I'm not able to change the size of that image.
I want my button to look similar to that of other buttons of Outlook just like 'Skype Meeting' or 'Meeting Notes' with the larger icon.
Can anyone please suggest me the way to design the Button with large icon.
I have created the Ribbon (Visual Designer) in Visual Studio 2015 for Outlook 2016 Add-In using VSTO. What would be the best way to do this using C#?
There are two sizes for "button" ribbon control:
size="large"
size="normal"
If you add into your button control XML large size, you'll get the button look you are referring to. For more information on how to customize Office Fluent Ribbon please refer to the following great resources:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
I got the solution for this problem.
We can set the property 'ControlSize' of Button to 'RibbonControlSizeLarge'.
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I have created a macro that will set the categories of out going mail without needing to open the tag dialog. I have added the macro to the ribbon via the "Customize Ribbon" options on outlook itself. That macro works fine, however I would like the button to be highlighted (toggled on) when the category is set and then regular (toggle off) when the category is no longer set.
I only have basic VB knowledge but have good knowledge of java so the concepts are familiar just not the syntax. This is also the first macro I've ever done.
I have tried searching Google and Stack for an answer but I think due to my lack of knowledge I'm not using the correct keyword to get a useful result.
Thanks for the help.
VBA macros don't allow creating a custom ribbon UI. You need to develop a COM add-in if you want to customize the Fluent UI by adding a toggle button to the Outlook window.
Take a look at the following articles to create a custom ribbon UI:
Walkthrough: Create a custom tab by using the Ribbon Designer
Walkthrough: Create a custom tab by using Ribbon XML
The Fluent UI is described in depth in the following series of articles:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
Is it possible to take a pre-existing button from the ribbon, Shape Fill from the Shape Styles category for example, and display it in a VBA userform?
My add-in manages a large number of shapes, and I would like to allow the user to style those shapes based on the category that they are in in the add-in.
I have read that a color dialog does not exist for us to use in VBA, so I'm trying to think of a way to work around that. Recreating all of the fill, outline, and effects menus seems like too much, there has to be a better way.
No, built-in ribbon controls can be used on the ribbon only. As a workaround you may consider using any ActiveX custom controls on your form.
Also you may consider creating a custom UI on the ribbon. In that case you will be able to add built-in ribbon controls to your own tab by specifying its idMso value. The full list of control IDs can be found in the following documents:
Office 2010 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Office 2013 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Office 2016 Help Files: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers
Read more about the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) in the following series of articles:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
I'm using Visual Studio 2008. It is possible to add a Webbrowser item to a Form item, but is it possible to add a Webbrowser item to a Ribbon item ?
Or is there another way of showing a Web Page on the Ribbon ?
There is something called Ribbon-XML, may that do the job ?
Or is it possible to bind a Form (inheriting a Webbrowser) to the Ribbon ?
No, there is no way to place any third party controls on the ribbon except the ones defined by the Ribbon scheme.
Instead, you may consider placing a web browser control on a custom task pane. See Custom Task Panes for more information in MSDN.
Read more about the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) in the following series of articles in MSND:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
I want to create a button like the 'Private' button when creating a new appointment/meeting. So that the button freeze in the mouse hover style when it gets clicked.
I create the button in the VBA project like this:
Set objCBC = objCB.Controls.Add(Type:= --WHICHTYPE--, _
Temporary:=True)
So does anybody know which type of button should be applied here??
Command bars were deprecated. You need to use the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) instead. Unfortunately Outlook doesn't allows to customize the Fluent UI with VBA, you need to develop an add-in instead. You can read more about the new UI in the following series of articles in MSDN:
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)
See the toggleButton control in the list of available controls.
I am developing an outlook 2007 add-in which is based on an existing outlook 2010 plugin. I managed to get most of the features working, because most of them were backwards compatible. However there are some I could not, because 2007 simply did not have certain features. \
Backstage view
Main ribbon
My question is - what would you suggest for an equivalent interface? Where would you put in outlook 2007 something that was in backstage view in 2010?
After much deliberation I decided to use a custom menu. All features available through the backstage view in 2010 will be converted to menu items in the custom menu in Outlook 2007.
Also buttons from the main ribbon will become items in the same custom menu.
This solution, while not as elegant as Fluent UI will work, I think, because all of my plugin's functionality will be available from one spot.