RibbonSeparator Interface

Represents a separator control for a group or menu on the Ribbon.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Common.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("79cda0e6-be5b-4889-a068-08a6ed0c54cc")> _
Public Interface RibbonSeparator _
    Inherits RibbonControl, RibbonComponent, IComponent, IDisposable
[GuidAttribute("79cda0e6-be5b-4889-a068-08a6ed0c54cc")]
public interface RibbonSeparator : RibbonControl, 
    RibbonComponent, IComponent, IDisposable

The RibbonSeparator type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public property Enabled Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this RibbonControl is enabled. (Inherited from RibbonControl.)
Public property Id Gets a string that Microsoft Office uses to identify this RibbonControl object. (Inherited from RibbonControl.)
Public property Name Gets or sets the name of this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public property Parent Gets a RibbonComponent that represents the parent of this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public property Position Gets or sets the position of the separator relative to a built-in control, or the location of a group relative to another group, if the separator is on the Microsoft Office Menu.
Public property Ribbon Gets the top-level Ribbon object that contains the control hierarchy. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public property RibbonUI Infrastructure. Gets the IRibbonUI instance that is provided by the Microsoft Office application to the Ribbon extensibility code. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public property Site Gets or sets the ISite associated with the IComponent. (Inherited from IComponent.)
Public property Tag Gets or sets application-specific data that is associated with this RibbonComponent. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public property Title Gets or sets text that appears on the RibbonSeparator control.
Public property Visible Gets or sets a value that indicates whether this RibbonControl is visible. (Inherited from RibbonControl.)

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method Dispose Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources. (Inherited from IDisposable.)
Public method PerformDynamicLayout Calls the Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonUI.InvalidateControl method of the parent control if the RibbonComponent has a dynamic parent, such as a dynamic menu, and layout is not suspended. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public method PerformLayout Calls Microsoft.Office.Core.IRibbonUI.InvalidateControl if the RibbonComponent has a parent and layout is not suspended. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public method ResumeLayout() Reverses the effect of the SuspendLayout method. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public method ResumeLayout(Boolean) Reverses the effect of the SuspendLayout method. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)
Public method SuspendLayout Prevents the Microsoft Office application from refreshing the state of controls on the Ribbon. (Inherited from RibbonComponent.)

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Events

  Name Description
Public event Disposed Represents the method that handles the Disposed event of a component. (Inherited from IComponent.)

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Remarks

A RibbonSeparator control draws a line, horizontal or vertical.

For the Microsoft Office Menu, a RibbonMenu, and a RibbonSplitButton, the RibbonSeparator is horizontal.

For the Ribbon, the RibbonSeparator is vertical.

You can set the Title property to have text on the separator in menus.

If the RibbonSeparator is located at the end of a menu, the RibbonSeparator is visible in the Ribbon Designer, but not in the Microsoft Office application.

RibbonSeparator implements separator and menuSeparator RibbonX elements.

You can create a RibbonSeparator at run time by using the CreateRibbonSeparator method of the RibbonFactory object.

There are two ways to access the RibbonFactory object:

  • By using the Factory property of the Ribbon class. Use this approach from code in your Ribbon class.

  • By using the Globals.Factory.GetRibbonFactory method. Use this approach from code outside your Ribbon class.

Note

This interface is implemented by the Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime. It is not intended to be implemented in your code. For more information, see Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Overview.

Usage

This documentation describes the version of this type that is used in Office projects that target the .NET Framework 4 and the .NET Framework 4.5. In projects that target the .NET Framework 3.5, this type might have different members and the code examples provided for this type might not work. For documentation about this type in projects that target the .NET Framework 3.5, see the following reference section in the Visual Studio 2008 documentation: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160658.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.Office.Tools.Ribbon Namespace

Other Resources

Ribbon Overview

Ribbon Designer

Ribbon Object Model Overview

How to: Get Started Customizing the Ribbon