A 'hello world' VB.NET program

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Creating a tab

  • Add a new class to your project and name it MyCustomUI.
  • Add the following code to your class
  1. Imports LogismiX.Interop.DynamicRibbonX
  2. Imports LogismiX.DynamicRibbonX.Core
  3.  
  4. Public Class MyCustomUI
  5.     Dim _customUI As rxCustomUI
  6.  
  7.     Public Sub New()
  8.         ' Instantiate a new rxCustomUI in context 'my_vb_context'
  9.         _customUI = rxCustomUI.create("my_vb_context", "My VB.NET context!")
  10.  
  11.         ' Cache a reference to the customUI's ribbon
  12.         Dim myRibbon As rxRibbon = _customUI.ribbon
  13.  
  14.         ' Create a new tab and label it 'My VB Tab'
  15.         Dim myTab As rxTab = New rxTab()
  16.         myTab.label = "My VB Tab"
  17.  
  18.         ' Add the tab to myRibbon's tabs
  19.         myRibbon.tabs.add(myTab)
  20.  
  21.         ' Render the UI
  22.         _customUI.refresh()
  23.  
  24.     End Sub
  25.  
  26. End Class
  • Modify class ThisAddin in ThisAddin.vb as follows
  1. Public Class ThisAddIn
  2.  
  3.     Private _myCustomUI As MyCustomUI
  4.  
  5.     Private Sub ThisAddIn_Startup() Handles Me.Startup
  6.         _myCustomUI = New MyCustomUI()
  7.     End Sub
  8.  
  9.     Private Sub ThisAddIn_Shutdown() Handles Me.Shutdown
  10.  
  11.     End Sub
  12.  
  13. End Class
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