Creating Excel/Office 2007 Addins in Visual Studio 2008

A month or 2 ago I went to the Heroes launch of VS 2008 in Adelaide. There are some exciting things happening in VS2008, especially with the Shared Addin in VS2008. Previously, you needed to go through the mess of creating a Shim, and manually creating XML to write to a ribbon. Now, they have made it simple. There is a Ribbon control to add which creates all the XML in the background, and all the shimming stuff happens automatically.

Create a New Project


Adding a Ribbon Control


Adding Controls from the Toolbox to the Ribbon


Finally!!! It is easy.