Making an Excel 2010 add-in

Excel has found a permanent niche in most corporate environments.…Its usage is not limited to accounting tasks either.…In this movie, I'm going to show you how to extend it even further by…creating your own add-in.…Remember that an add-in is an application that is installed once and then loaded…each time Excel runs.…It's not tied to a specific document.…For this demonstration, I'm going to create a custom ribbon inside Excel 2010.…I'm inside a project called ProcessAnalyzer.…I've already written the demonstration code for today.…I'm going to start by showing you how to add your own custom ribbon to an Excel project.…

You right-click on the project, and choose Add > New Item.…Here is the ribbon designer that I want to use.…Now, I already have a ribbon, so I'm not going to go ahead and click on the Add button.…Instead, I'm going to cancel this one and show you the existing…ProcessMemoryRibbon I've written.…As you can see, it has a designer surface.…There's also a special section on the Toolbox that contains Office Ribbon Controls.…