How to Show Outlook Ribbon on multiple tabs c#

Question

I am developing an Outlook plugin. I have added a ribbon with the ribbon type set to

this.RibbonType = "Microsoft.Outlook.Explorer";

and ControlId is set to TabMail. By default this ribbon shows on the Home tab in Outlook. But when I open an email in a separate window, when I switch to a different tab or when I view attachments, the ribbon does not appear. I also want to show this ribbon on the Message tab and the Attachments tab.

I have explored ways and got answers that refer to creating two ribbons, but that is not a proper solution.

I also followed this link, but with no luck.

The other solution i explored is to call event tabControl_SelectedIndexChanged on tabs to identify the current tab and then setting ribbon properties(ribbontype and ribbon control) run time. How to do that for ribbon (Visual Designer)? Or I have to convert that into ribbon (xml)? And where to trigger that event?

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

You should create a new Ribbon with ribbonType Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Read and your controlId TabReadMessage

Answer 2

You need to choose appropriate values for the RibbonType property:

you can select such

• List item Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Compose or Microsoft.Outlook.Mail.Read