We have a stripped down Connect class which instantiates the addin's core from an other assembly. Our architectural design is to keep the UI and business logic separated from the loading module (= Connect class), but the restrictions of a shared Addin make us troubles.
what we did in Connect.cs:
[GuidAttribute("XYZ"), ProgId("XYZ")]
public class Connect : Object, IDTExtensibility2, ICustomQueryInterface
{
...
CustomQueryInterfaceResult ICustomQueryInterface.GetInterface(ref Guid iid,
out IntPtr ppv)
{
if (iid.Equals(new Guid("000C0396-0000-0000-C000-000000000046")))
{
ppv = Marshal.GetComInterfaceForObject(
UIObject,
typeof(IRibbonExtensibility),
CustomQueryInterfaceMode.Ignore);
return CustomQueryInterfaceResult.Handled;
}
ppv = IntPtr.Zero;
return CustomQueryInterfaceResult.NotHandled;
}
}
how the RibbonUI looks like:
public interface IOfficeFluentUI : IRibbonExtensibility
{
...
}
public class OfficeFluentUI : OfficeUIBase, IOfficeFluentUI
{
...
public string GetCustomUI(string RibbonID)
{
...
}
}
The GetInterface function works, it gets the com interface, but unfortunately the GetCustomUI function gets NEVER called. What did we wrong? Thank You very much for any help.
[edit] We already know the "Managed COM Aggregation" and "ICustomQueryInterface" articles. Unfortunately, they did not really help.