Customize the Outlook Ribbon with Visual Studio 2008

I couldn’t find much in the way of posts about customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007 using VSTO 2008.

It’s actually really nicely implemented – just not particularly documented…

To get started, in your Add-In, add a Ribbon Designer class.

Add a button to the Ribbon.

In your button event handler, you can access the properties of the parent AddIn using :

Globals.[AddInClassName].[Exposed property]