Add a subject to a new email with custom button

Question

I wrote an Add-in for Outlook 2010 that inserts text to a new email subject and to the email body. The working code is shown below.

Later I added a custom group to the built-in new email message tab ribbon and added a button using the default name Button1. When I run the add-in the button shows up fine.

I want to click on this button and change the subject and the body content. I tried to add a private sub Button1_Click with code that changes the subject to “subject example” and the body to “body example” and could not make it work. Can you add to the ribbon code the Button1_Click sub that will do that? See below the Addin code and the ribbon1 code.

Public Class ThisAddIn

Private WithEvents inspectors As Outlook.Inspectors

Private Sub ThisAddIn_Startup(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Startup
    inspectors = Me.Application.Inspectors
End Sub

Private Sub ThisAddIn_Shutdown() Handles Me.Shutdown

End Sub

Private Sub inspectors_NewInspector(ByVal Inspector As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Inspector) Handles inspectors.NewInspector
    Dim mailItem As Outlook.MailItem = TryCast(Inspector.CurrentItem, Outlook.MailItem)
    If Not (mailItem Is Nothing) Then
        If mailItem.EntryID Is Nothing Then
            mailItem.Subject = "This text was added by using code"
            mailItem.Body = "This text was added by using code"
        End If
    End If
End Sub

End Class

Ribbon1 Code without the Private Sub Button1.Click. Please show me how to write this code.

Public Class Ribbon1

Private Sub Ribbon1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As RibbonUIEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

End Sub

End Class

Eugene Astafiev Eugene Astafiev · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-23T18:23:56

VSTO provides two main ways for customizing the Ribbon UI:

Essentially you need to add the onAction attribute for the button and then add the corresponding callback to the code.

Read more about the Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) in the following series of articles in MSDN:

To get the currently shown in the inspector window Outlook item you can use the ActiveInspector method of the Application class or use the IRibbonControl.Context property which you may cast to the Inspector class. Then you can use the CurrentItem property to get the Outlook item.

Add a subject to a new email with custom button

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