I have an Outlook Addin That Adds a Group to the Ribbon with two buttons. It was working perfectly before I added the second button, but they have the same properties just different click handlers. It shows up in the correct place in the customize ribbon menu, but it is greyed out. What does it mean when it is greyed out and what could cause it? The addin is still loaded and wasn't deactivated for any reason that is on the list of reasons for why addins would be deactivated.
By following this question's answer: Outlook addin Home tab with custom button
I was able to get the button to show on the read mail window on the main tab. The only differences from that answer are I used TabReadMessage rather than TabMail (as per the documentation). This worked perfectly until the 2nd button was added. You can see both buttons in the screnshot, Archive Message and Archive Message As.
See picture:
Anyone have any idea why this could be happening. Why would adding a second button make it stop showing up?
Is there a way to debug this and see what is occurring?
Any help would be appreciated as I've been searching for the answer for a while now.
Thanks
EDIT:
The generated code for my properties of my ribbon elements.
private void InitializeComponent()
{
System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager resources = new System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager(typeof(OutlookRibbon));
this.tab1 = this.Factory.CreateRibbonTab();
this.group1 = this.Factory.CreateRibbonGroup();
this.button1 = this.Factory.CreateRibbonButton();
this.button2 = this.Factory.CreateRibbonButton();
this.tab1.SuspendLayout();
this.group1.SuspendLayout();
//
// tab1
//
this.tab1.ControlId.ControlIdType = Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonControlIdType.Office;
this.tab1.ControlId.OfficeId = "TabReadMessage";
this.tab1.Groups.Add(this.group1);
this.tab1.Label = "TabReadMessage";
this.tab1.Name = "tab1";
//
// group1
//
this.group1.Items.Add(this.button1);
this.group1.Items.Add(this.button2);
this.group1.Label = "Archive";
this.group1.Name = "group1";
this.group1.Position = this.Factory.RibbonPosition.BeforeOfficeId("GroupRespond");
//
// button1
//
this.button1.ControlSize = Microsoft.Office.Core.RibbonControlSize.RibbonControlSizeLarge;
this.button1.Description = "Archive Message";
this.button1.Image = ((System.Drawing.Image)(resources.GetObject("button1.Image")));
this.button1.Label = "Archive Message";
this.button1.Name = "button1";
this.button1.ScreenTip = "Archives Message";
this.button1.ShowImage = true;
this.button1.SuperTip = "Archives Message";
this.button1.Click += new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonControlEventHandler(this.button1_Click);
//
// button2
//
this.button2.ControlSize = Microsoft.Office.Core.RibbonControlSize.RibbonControlSizeLarge;
this.button2.Description = "Archive Message As";
this.button2.Image = ((System.Drawing.Image)(resources.GetObject("button2.Image")));
this.button2.Label = "Archive Message As";
this.button2.Name = "button2";
this.button2.ScreenTip = "Archive message in designated place";
this.button2.ShowImage = true;
this.button2.SuperTip = "Archives message in designated place";
this.button2.Click += new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonControlEventHandler(this.button2_Click);
//
// OutlookRibbon
//
this.Name = "OutlookRibbon";
this.RibbonType = resources.GetString("$this.RibbonType");
this.Tabs.Add(this.tab1);
this.Load += new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon.RibbonUIEventHandler(this.OutlookRibbon_Load);
this.tab1.ResumeLayout(false);
this.tab1.PerformLayout();
this.group1.ResumeLayout(false);
this.group1.PerformLayout();
}
EDIT 2:
All of a sudden every single addin a make even blank ones in VS cause the errror Ribbon_GetDCVisible say Exception occurred while calling the function GetVisisble. Not sure why, but I turned on show UI errors so maybe this is greying them out? Not sure though because it is happening with every single addin. Even brand new blank ones.
.group1.Items.Add(this.button1);, try making the buttons with XML or see if you can do it that way: stackoverflow.com/questions/17216199/… – Jeremy Thompson