Anything you want kept alive has to be declared at the module level of the
class, not locally in some procedure. The garbage collector is eating your
button references. Declare your button objects at module level.
--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
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"Soumitra" <soumitra.mishra[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi,
>
> I am developing a VSTO add-in for Outlook 2003 using VS. NET 2005 VSTO
> template. I am adding two command buttons to Outlook's standard tool
> bar. These buttons are hooked up to an event handler
> (Button1_Click). When I start outlook I see the two buttons, however
> for some reason only one button is hooked to the event handler. This
> does not depend on the order in which the buttons are created. There
> seems to be no patter to this. Sometimes event handler for both
> buttons work. But usually the event handler for the button that is
> clicked first works. To me it seems like Outlook disposes the second
> button for some reason. I have pasted the code inside ThisAddIn.cs
> below. In this code the two buttons are added to two separate Popup.
> However, the result is same as directly adding the buttons to the
> standard tool bar.
>
> Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Soumitra Mishra
>
> namespace IssueEmailAddIn2003
> {
> public partial class ThisAddIn
> {
> private Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Selection
> currentSelection;
> public Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Selection
> CurrentSelection
> {
> get { return
> this.Application.ActiveExplorer().Selection; }
> }
> // Called only the first time
> private void ThisAddIn_Startup(object sender, System.EventArgs
> e)
> {
> try
> {
> // Add VSTO Menus
> CreateVSTOPopupMenus();
> }
> catch (Exception exp)
> {
> MessageBox.Show("Error: " + exp.ToString());
> }
> }
> public void CreateVSTOPopupMenus()
> {
> Office.CommandBar currentBar =
> this.Application.ActiveExplorer().CommandBars["Standard"];
>
> // Add Popup Menus
> CreateEmailIssuePopUp(); // Popup 1
> CreateFavoritesMenu(); // Popup 2
>
> }
> private void CreateEmailIssuePopUp()
> {
> Office.CommandBar currentBar =
> this.Application.ActiveExplorer().CommandBars["Standard"];
>
> Office.CommandBarPopup c =
> (Office.CommandBarPopup)currentBar.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup,
> 1, "", 1, true);
> c.Caption = "TAC Net";
> c.Visible = true;
> c.Tag = "TAC Net";
>
> PopulateEmailIssueListPopUp(c);
> }
> public void CreateFavoritesMenu()
> {
> // Get a reference to outlook's command bar
> Office.CommandBar currentBar =
> this.Application.ActiveExplorer().CommandBars["Standard"];
> Office.CommandBarPopup favoritesMenu =
> (Office.CommandBarPopup)currentBar.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlPopup,
> 1, "", 1, true);
> favoritesMenu.Caption = "Favorites";
> favoritesMenu.Visible = true;
> favoritesMenu.Tag = "Favorites";
> PopulateEmailIssueListPopUp(favoritesMenu);
> }
> private void
> PopulateEmailIssueListPopUp(Office.CommandBarPopup
> emailIssueListPopUp)
> {
> Office.CommandBarControl button =
> emailIssueListPopUp.Controls.Add(Office.MsoControlType.msoControlButton,
> System.Type.Missing, "dummy", missing, false);
> button.Caption = "* dummy";
> // Add event handler to save the email to the
> corresponding document library
> Office.CommandBarButton buttonControl = button as
> Office.CommandBarButton;
> //buttonControl.Click += new
> Microsoft.Office.Core._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(EmailIssueButton_Click);
> buttonControl.Click += new
> Microsoft.Office.Core._CommandBarButtonEvents_ClickEventHandler(Button1_Click);
> }
> private void
> Button1_Click(Microsoft.Office.Core.CommandBarButton Ctrl, ref bool
> CancelDefault)
> {
> MessageBox.Show(Ctrl.Caption + ":" +
> CancelDefault.ToString());
> }
> private void ThisAddIn_Shutdown(object sender,
> System.EventArgs e)
> {
>
> }
>
> #region VSTO generated code
>
> /// <summary>
> /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
> /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
> /// </summary>
> private void InternalStartup()
> {
> this.Startup += new
> System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Startup);
> this.Shutdown += new
> System.EventHandler(ThisAddIn_Shutdown);
> }
>
> #endregion
> }
>
> }
>
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