Microsoft to let Users run Custom Apps from Office Ribbons

The Microsoft office platform with a future update will not let users allowing pinning apps to the Office ribbon centered on the screen. The executive vice president of Applications and Services group Qi Lu said during a keyboard during Microsoft's build conference in San Francisco.

A number of competitors have successfully replicated its basic productivity functionality and now it's becoming extensive to Microsoft Office. Microsoft have now device to add all those intelligences to their Office platform. A recent example was seeing Bing search bar in their latest Office online, that was later implemented to their Office 2016 apps. Microsoft also later added up PayPal integrations.

Microsoft are now set out to launch "Connectors" to other services where they add data from other applications directly into their Office applications without actually importing them. Microsoft have also begun with a developer portal to bring connectors from apps like Zendesk, Twitter along with other apps etc. The Ribbon enables you to customize a Ribbon by using XML.

Users can ribbon any item they want to customize the ribbon in a way currently unsupported by the visual developer Ribbon item. You can now respond to user actions such as a click of a button by creating callback methods. They resemble events in Windows form controls but are identified by an XML attribute of the UI elements.

Users now write methods for the Ribbon class and control calls the method that has the same name as the attribute value. You need to assign a value to a control in the ribbon XML which then identifies a callback method in your codes.

Microsoft is sure that developers can go a bit further with Office ribboning. Microsoft's senior program manager said that Ribbons allowed users to design apps with the look and feel as the same that is true to Office. All these are supposed to work with Office for the web, Windows 10 devices along with Mac devices.