The search function is used in EXCEL to search for the specified menu command.
like this
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/rJTOX.png
If the button developed by VSTO needs to implement an interface, it can be searched.
This interface forgets which I am.
MSDN can't find it, let me know if you know, thank you
Unfortunately not all features of the ribbon are available for developers. The Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) doesn't provide anything for that. You can find the definitive list of controls and customizations described 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)
Nothing has been changed since Office 2007.
You may try using the Accessibility API to automate tasks related to the user interface in Office applications.
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All the questions/answers I have seen so far are old and do not provide a definitive answer.
Also what can I use locally and what can I use online?
what can I use locally and what can I use online?
You may use your VSTO and VBA add-ins for Office Desktop application on Windows.
Office applications on Web (online) has extensibility via Office.js API. Microsoft current name is "Office Add-ins", you may try them by loading into your Office application (excel) from Office Store. If you want to develop add-in based on this technology I would suggest to start over here: Office Add-ins platform overview. The conception behind of this technology is "build once, use everywhere where Office runs". That means your add-in may work for Office Desktop on Windows, Office Desktop on Mac, Online versions as well as some mobile platforms (subject to availability)
We developed an App for Office (Word and Excel) and we have it available for users now. People install it locally but to get to it they need to click so many things (INSERT > My Apps > MY ORGANIZATION > icon...), which is quite frustrating, and difficult to find and remember.
Is there a way to add our icon to the Office Ribbon? Or any other way that will allow single-click launch?
There is an update, it is possible to add button (exactly "commands") to office add-in apps.
Currently supported platforms:
Office Desktop 2016 (build 16.0.6769.0000 or later)
Office Online
See Dev Center and git .
There is no alternative way unfortunately.
I have a couple of Excel Add ins. If I move to Office 365, will these add ins be available ? Is there any development support(VSTO) for Office 365 ?
I to have been curious about the answer to this, so went looking online. From the following site, I'd say the answer is no. It looks like developing for Office 365 is more along the lines of SharePoint development.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/donovanf/archive/2011/06/29/office-365-developer-guidance-and-resources.aspx
I have seen advertisements online for products such as this... http://www.ocxt.com/products that look like they could provide a possible solution for taking a vsto application to the web.
I think things have moved on substantially since this question was asked. Microsoft seem to be fully committed to the Add-in approach with Office 2013 and the equivalent VSTO tooling available in VS2012.
The Office Dev Center home page has Office 2013 and VSTO Add-ins written all over it.
This MSDN Blog Post also clearly shows Add-ins are still part of the strategy.
Until the full capabilities of Desktop MS Office are available in a browser, I can't see this situation changing.
If you mean Office 365 installed on client PC then there is no issue with VSTO Add-ins. Our Chem4Word Add-in is using Office 2010 VSTO and happily works with 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, O365.
If you mean Office 365 on-line then you have to redesign them using the Office 365 Javascript API
I wrote a Word 2003 add-in that uses the 2003 PIAs for early-binding. I want the same executable to support the Ribbon interface in Office 2007 and 2010, while still running in Office 2003.
Is it possible to late-bind the IRibbonExtensibility interface? If not, is there another way to dynamically differentiate between Office versions?
There's a good book on working with the ribbon UI in Office:
RibbonX: Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon
Robert Martin, Ken Puls, Teresa Hennig
The authors and MS both suggest a trick along these lines for solving this problem:
When your add-in loads, it queries the app to find out what version it's running in.
If Office 2003, it creates a normal CommandBars 'n Buttons UI.
If Office 2007 or later, it looks for another add-in and demand-loads it. This second add-in contains just the RibbonX code to create your ribbon UI plus handlers for the button click events. The handler simply calls back to the main add-in.
With a little clever use of tags in your RibbonXML and handler, you can have a single handler work out which routine in the main add-in to call.
Kindly provide all free Utilities/libraries details here so that we can make a one stop shop for users to find free utilities
Mine contribution
mixed authentication
SharePoint AJAX Toolkit for SharePoint 2010
Microsoft Patterns & Practices - SharePoint Guidance
SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 Service Manager - Easily turn SharePoint services on/off on your dev box.
SharePoint Manager : A visual representation of the SharePoint object model that lets you interact with lists, webs, etc.
U2U CAML Query Builder for SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007. Its a worth have for SharePoint geeks anyway!
All the tools and functionalities that are available within the essential CKS:DEV Visual Studio 2010 extension http://cksdev.codeplex.com/ are absolutely essential for anyone developing any code related solutions in SharePoint 2010.
I'm also a big fan of the Starter Master Pages http://startermasterpages.codeplex.com/ which helped me a lot when I had to create my first 2010 project.
For rapid virtual environment creation, I do like the scripts available within the Auto SharePoint Installer http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/
Finally, don't forget that SharePoint Designer 2010 is free like it's little brother, and unlike the awful mess that was the previous edition, this new release is much more stable and less clumsy (It's still not something I would easily recommand but it helps to get some things done when you know what you are doing).