The Add-Ins tab entries have no discoverability.
It's worse in Outlook 2010 because you also have that for Explorers. In
addition, what you used to add to property pages now is also not
discoverable unless you re-write to use Backstage instead.
To support various versions I now have Inspector ribbons and commandbars,
Explorer ribbons and commandbars, property pages and Backstage all supported
in one addin dll. Lots of version testing and special case code.
You cannot add anything to the big Send button area, nor can you repurpose
that button as you can with most other ribbon controls. My customers have
had to accept either a new ribbon group or tab for that. My information is
that there is no thought to allowing us to customize that button or that
area.
I hate to suggest it, but if there's no compromise you might have to use
start from scratch and design your own ribbon for customers like that from
scratch where you can design what they want. Of course the development costs
may make them decide they'd love the button somewhere else
With invalidating you have to check and see which callbacks are forced by
invalidating. Some are not called again, some are, depending on the control
and the callback. So you have to test for suitability for your purposes.
"Tom" <tom@gigasoftdevelopment.com> wrote in message
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> That is what I thought ken.
> But I never thought about invalidating to force a callback - good idea!
> I have so many customers who don't like to use the add-in tab for Outlook
> 2007 because it hides their obvious logic. So they want something visible
> that says their company name.
> FYI- Also I have numerous requests to add a simple button next to the send
> button on the new message window. Are we ever going to be able to do this?
> We have actually had clients change their mind about doing anything with
> Outlook because of that one lacking feature. For example some companies
> like button functionality like -"Send and save on network". And they want
> it next to the send button. I think this is one feature that needs to be
> added to Outlook.
> Thanks again for your input.