Extending the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Interface Mike Taulty Developer & Platform Group, Microsoft Ltd

Agenda The Ribbon Custom Task Panes Outlook UI Enhancements Existing Customisations Tools

Quick tour of the Office 2007 User Interface

Tools PaidRTM Free*RTM Second Edition Pro & Above CTP Codename “Orcas”

Why use VSTO? Recommendation is to use VSTO over and above VS 2005 and the interop assemblies; Runtime adds app-domain isolation Runtime solves problem of enabling/disabling mscoree.dll add-ins Runtime solves problem of signing add-ins Runtime adds feature support (e.g. task panes) Templates speed development RuntimeRuntime Tool Support

“The Tab” The Ribbon (and Friends) “The Button” “Quick Access Toolbar” “The Group (of Controls)” “The Ribbon” “Dialog Launcher” “Gallery”

Customising the Ribbon Hiding or “re-purposing” existing UI Adding new UI Notes Can be more than one ribbon (e.g. Outlook) Can be done at the application level or at the document level Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, WordAccess, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word

Customising the Ribbon – The Pattern Your code Get XML UI Definition XML Other than Invalidate() Callbacks; “GetImage” “IsEnabled” etc.

Tools Second Edition Codename “Orcas” Add-ins at the application level Template helps with COM interfaces Add-ins at the document level Ribbon designer support

Customising the Ribbon

Custom Task Panes Space to host custom UI Any ActiveX content Windows Forms WPF Usually launched from the Ribbon Access, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word

Tools Second Edition Add-ins at the application level Runtime help with adding task panes to the application being extended

Custom Task Panes

Outlook UI Extensibility Form Regions Inspector Reading Pane Context Menus Attachment Item Folder Shortcut View

Outlook Object Model EnhancementsMAPIMAPI Outlook 2003 CDO(EX)CDO(EX) 3 rd Party Outlook New Objects + Enhancements + Rules Outlook New Objects + Enhancements + Rules

Outlook Object Guard Changes For add-ins, no prompts if; Add-in uses the Application object which has trusted access Admin has not restricted the list of trusted add-ins (group policy) For out of process callers, no prompts if; Windows Vista or Windows XP Sp2 Security Center reports “Good” anti-virus status Outlook programmatic settings have not been changed (user/admin)

Tools Second Edition VSTO helps in building the Outlook Add-In Helps in implementing the COM interface

Outlook UI Extensibility

Existing Customisations Custom Menus Custom Buttons on Formatting Toolbar Custom Toolbars They still work XLM, WordBasic, CommandBars (‘96), WLL, XLL, XLA, PPA, Word global templates In Excel, “Init Menus” registry key Attached Toolbars in Word & Excel Other technologies

Mapping Existing Solutions If your code added a...It appears in... Control to a built-in menuThe “Menu Commands” group Control to a built-in toolbarThe “Toolbar Commands” group Custom toolbarThe “Custom Toolbars” group

Summary Extending the RibbonExtending the Ribbon Adding Custom Task PanesAdding Custom Task Panes Form Regions & Menus in OutlookForm Regions & Menus in Outlook Visual Studio Tools for Office (SE)Visual Studio Tools for Office (SE)

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