Loading The Ribbon on Outlook Start

Question

Hi , I kinda new in this so I guess my problem is very basic
I'm creating a simple Add-in for Outlook 2013 via Visual Studio 2013
I added an Ribbon XML item, and customized it.
before I start to actually link the buttons to the commands I want to see how it looks in outlook
so from the Visual Studio I press >Start and I can see the add-in is loaded from the add-in list, though I don't see my tab on the Ribbon :/
my goal is to have this ribbon on the Microsoft.Outlook.Explorer ribbon.
what am I missing? what do I need to add in the ThisAddIn_StartUp sub in order to show it?
thanks
Tamir Levy

Answer 1

Hello Tamir,
VSTO provides two main ways for creating a custom UI for the add-in:
1. The Ribbon designer which allows to create the UI manually. See
Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Tab by Using the Ribbon Designer .
2. Ribbon XML. See
Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Tab by Using Ribbon XML for more information. Make sure that you did all the steps described in the article, especially added the CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject method to the ThisAddin.cs file:
protected override Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonExtensibility CreateRibbonExtensibilityObject()
return new MyRibbon();