Add custom buttons to Microsoft Office toolbar /
commandbar in C#, VB.NET, C++

Toolbar Controls
for Microsoft® Office

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Custom Toolbar Controls

The Toolbar Controls, which is part of Add-in Express for Office and .net, was designed to overstep the limits of existing CommandBar controls. With the Toolbar Controls, you can use any .NET controls, not only native Office controls, on your command bars. Now you can add any button to the Office toolbar as well as tree-views, grids, diagrams, edit boxes, reports and other controls.

The Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office enables you to:

  • Create your own toolbars for Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint applications and populate them with command bar items.
  • Add any .NET controls, such as a button, combo box, grid, tree view, label, image, user control, visual ActiveX controls to Office toolbars.
  • Extend Microsoft Office built-in commandbars, including context-sensitive pop-ups.

Supported IDEs and languages:

  • Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013 (VB .NET, C#, C++.NET)

Supported applications:

  • Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007
  • Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007
  • Microsoft Word 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003 and 2007

Note. Now the Toolbar Controls for Microsoft Office is part of Add-in Express for Office and .net

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