How to bind outlook add-in dropdown?

Question

I want to bind a dropdown which is in ribbon.xml file like below, I am not sure how to add items in dropdown. I tried with onAaction event but it is not even firing. any idea how I can proceed with this?

<group id="Family" label="Family Group">
      <dropDown id="drpFamily" label="Family" showImage="false" onAction="BindDropdown"  />
      </group>

Answer 1

All Fluent UI (aka Ribbon UI) controls are described in depth in the following series of articles:

• Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 1 of 3)
• Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 2 of 3)
• Customizing the 2007 Office Fluent Ribbon for Developers (Part 3 of 3)

Also you may find the Extending the User Interface in Outlook 2010 article helpful.

See How to dynamically add items in Ribbon dropdown and Adding items to RibbonDropDown at runtime for more information.