Access Ribbon Controls Programmatically in XML Ribbon

Question

To program Office add-ins using C # 4.0, Microsoft provides two different ways to create and / or change the ribbon interface: you can use the Ribbon Designer or define the ribbon layout in the XML Ribbon .

If you create a ribbon using the Ribbon designer, the class generated in the code behind has visibility for all the controls that you placed on the ribbon. Therefore, if I placed RibbonDropDown under the name "dropdown1", I could use the following code to add an element to it:

RibbonDropDownItem item = Factory.CreateRibbonDropDownItem();
item.Label = submatrix.Name;
item.Tag = submatrix;
this.dropDown1.Items.Add(item);

However, if you create the same tape using Ribbon XML, dropDown1 or Factory will not be found ("The name does not exist in the current context").

Is there a way to access the elements added to the ribbon attached to the ribbon in the code?

Answer 1

It may be a little late, but hopefully this helps someone.

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ribbon.InvalidateControl("MyCtl");

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