Duane,

Each instance of a Tool will have a property called OwnerIsApplicationMenuArea, which, when it is placed in the ApplicationMenu, will return true.  This will return true for all tools in teh ApplicationMenu, regardless of if it is in ToolAreaLeft of ToolAreaRight.  You could also set the Tag property of the Tools you put in the ToolAreaLeft, essentially using that as a flag that indicates that those Tools are in the ApplicationMenu's ToolAreaLeft.

Hope this helps,

~Kim~

Kim,

Thanks for the code.

I am also adding a few tools to the Ribbon.ApplicationMenu.ToolAreaLeft.  I would like to remove those tools when a user signs out of my application.  Is there a way to mark or flag the ones that were added to the tools when the user signed into my app?  I could remove them by name, but I am trying not to use the specific name, to ease future maintenance.

duane

KDuaneS,

Clearing the UltraToolbarsManager's root Tools collection will clear all of the components tools.  It does not matter if they were created at design time or at run time.  In order to clear only certain tools, you will need to use code similar to:

 foreach (RibbonTab tab in this.ultraToolbarsManager1.Ribbon.Tabs)
            {
                foreach (RibbonGroup group in tab.Groups)
                {
                    for (int i = group.Tools.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                    {
                        ToolBase tool = group.Tools[i];
                        group.Tools.Remove(tool);
                        this.ultraToolbarsManager1.Tools.Remove(tool);
                    }
                    tab.Groups.Remove(group);
                }
            }

The above code loops through all of the tools in the RibbonGroups, removes them from the group, and then removes them from the root Tools collection.  This will ensure that only some tools are removed instead of all of them.  If you want to remove tools from different parts of the ribbon you can do that too; you just have to remember to remove the instance and then remove the tool from the root Tools collection.

~Kim~

Let me just make myself clearer,

The tabs, and groups/buttons are all dynamically created at runtime based on the values from my database, so when I change these values in the database, I want to have a "Refresh" button, to clear all the old controls+keys, and create them again base on the new values.

All other controls created on design time, such as the application menu, and those short cut buttons beside the circular button should remain.