Question

I am trying to create addin for excel that has a dropdown and a button.

I was successfully able to add button, but for some reason, I was not able to add dropdown to it.

Here is the code for button, this is calld in ThisAddIn_startup:

 try
            {
                _commandBar = Application.CommandBars["commandBar"];
                _commandBar.Delete();


            }
            catch (ArgumentException e)
            {
            }

            // Add a commandbar named Test.

            _commandBar = Application.CommandBars.Add("button1", Office.MsoBarPosition.msoBarRight, missing, true);

            // Add a button to the command bar and an event handler.
            _firstButton = (Office.CommandBarButton)_commandBar.Controls.Add(
                Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton, missing, missing, missing, missing);

            _firstButton.Style = Office.MsoButtonStyle.msoButtonCaption;
                      _firstButton.Click += new Office._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(firstButton_ButtonClick);

            _commandBar.Visible = true;

After doing some more research on google, I thought it was simpler to add ribbon designer and use that for adding more controls to the addin. But I am not able to view that ribbon on excel when I run the project.

I am totally lost what is the better solution for this.

Any help/link would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I could use the same solution with Excel addin, by changing the line,

  _commandBar = Application.CommandBars.Add("button1", Office.MsoBarPosition.msoBarRight, missing, true);

to

_commandBar = Application.CommandBars.Add("button1", missing, missing, true);

By removing the position, I could add as many controls on the addin, as I want.