ApplicationMenu.RecentItems property

Represents a container for the Recent Items control in the Application Menu.

Usage

<ApplicationMenu.RecentItems
  CommandName = "xs:positiveInteger or xs:string"
>
  child elements
</ApplicationMenu.RecentItems>

Attributes

Attribute Type Required Description
CommandName
xs:positiveInteger or xs:string
No
Associates the element with a Command.

(xs:positiveInteger or xs:string)
A string, an integer value between 2 and 59999, inclusive, or a hexadecimal value between 0x2 and 0xea5f, inclusive.
The value must be unique within the Ribbon XML document.
Maximum length: 100 characters.

Child elements

Element Description
RecentItems
Must occur exactly once

Parent elements

Element
ApplicationMenu

Remarks

Optional.

May occur at most once for each ApplicationMenu element.

The Recent Items control displays the most recently used (MRU) items list of the Ribbon application.

Examples

The following example demonstrates the basic markup for the Recent Items control.

The following example shows a RecentItems Command declaration.

<!-- Command declaration for most recently used items. -->
<Command Name="cmdMRUItems"
         Symbol="ID_FILE_MRUITEMS"
         Id="25050"/>

The following example shows the associated ApplicationMenu.RecentItems and RecentItems controls declaration.

<!-- Most recently used items collection. -->
<ApplicationMenu.RecentItems>
  <RecentItems CommandName="cmdMRUItems"/>
</ApplicationMenu.RecentItems>

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client
Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server
Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]

See also

Application Menu control

Recent Items control