OfficeRibbon Interface

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09/19/2013

Represents a Microsoft Office Ribbon customization that is created by using the Ribbon Designer in an Office project in Visual Studio.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon
Assemblies: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.v4.0.Utilities.dll)
Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("49fbf223-6d24-4c4b-9101-2d5833434328")> _
Public Interface OfficeRibbon _
    Inherits RibbonComponent, IComponent, IDisposable

[GuidAttribute("49fbf223-6d24-4c4b-9101-2d5833434328")]
public interface OfficeRibbon : RibbonComponent, 
    IComponent, IDisposable

The OfficeRibbon type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Context	Gets the Inspector window, or the Explorer window in Outlook, that is associated with this Ribbon.
	DefaultExtension	Gets the default extension for this OfficeRibbon object.
	Extension	Gets a custom extension for this OfficeRibbon object.
	Global	Gets or sets a value that determines whether this OfficeRibbon can be used in multiple contexts simultaneously.
	Name	Gets or sets the name of this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	OfficeMenu	Gets a RibbonOfficeMenu that represents the Microsoft Office Menu customization.
	Parent	Gets a RibbonComponent that represents the parent of this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	Ribbon	Gets the top-level Ribbon object that contains the control hierarchy. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	RibbonId	Gets the Ribbon ID that was used to create this instance of the OfficeRibbon object.
	RibbonType	Gets a comma-separated list of Ribbon IDs that are associated with this OfficeRibbon instance.
	RibbonUI	Infrastructure. Gets the IRibbonUI instance that is provided by the Microsoft Office application to the Ribbon extensibility code. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	Site	Gets or sets the ISite associated with the IComponent. (Inherited from IComponent.)
	StartFromScratch	Gets or sets a value that indicates whether to hide all built-in tabs on the Ribbon and most commands on the Microsoft Office Menu and display only the customizations that are defined in this Ribbon item.
	Tabs	Gets a collection of RibbonTab objects in the RibbonOfficeMenu.
	Tag	Gets or sets application-specific data that is associated with this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)

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Methods

	Name	Description
	_VtblGap1_2	Infrastructure.
	Dispose	Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources. (Inherited from IDisposable.)
	PerformDynamicLayout	Calls the Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonUI.InvalidateControl method of the parent control if the RibbonComponent has a dynamic parent, such as a dynamic menu, and layout is not suspended. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	PerformLayout	Calls Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonUI.InvalidateControl if the RibbonComponent has a parent and layout is not suspended. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	ResumeLayout()	Reverses the effect of the SuspendLayout method. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	ResumeLayout(Boolean)	Reverses the effect of the SuspendLayout method. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
	SuspendLayout	Prevents the Microsoft Office application from refreshing the state of controls on the Ribbon. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)

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Events

	Name	Description
	Close	Occurs when this OfficeRibbon instance is closing.
	Disposed	Represents the method that handles the Disposed event of a component. (Inherited from IComponent.)
	Load	Occurs when the OfficeRibbon is loaded into the Microsoft Office application.
	LoadImage	Occurs when the OfficeRibbon loads, if the ImageName property is set for one or more controls.

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Remarks

You typically do not use the OfficeRibbon interface directly. Instead, use the Ribbon class that Visual Studio generates when you add a new Ribbon (Visual Designer) item to your project. You can accomplish most tasks related to the Ribbon by using events and properties in the generated Ribbon class.

The generated Ribbon class inherits from the RibbonBase class. This base class redirects all calls to its members to an internal implementation of the OfficeRibbon interface the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime. If you want to work with the OfficeRibbon object directly, use the Base property of the generated Ribbon class.

Note

This interface is implemented by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime. It is not intended to be implemented in your code. For more information, see Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview.

Usage

This documentation describes the version of this type that is used in Office projects that target the .NET Framework 4 and the .NET Framework 4.5. In projects that target the .NET Framework 3.5, this type might have different members and the code examples provided for this type might not work. For documentation about this type in projects that target the .NET Framework 3.5, see the following reference section in the Visual Studio 2008 documentation: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160658.