VSTO or any other technology or language, Outlook 2003 or 2007:

Office.CommandBar bar = null;

int count = insp.CommandBars.Count;
for (int i = 1; i = count; i++)
{
bar = (Office.CommandBar)insp.CommandBars[i];
if (bar.Name == myBar.Name)
{
bool barVisible = bar.Visible;
}
}

Of course if you are developing for Outlook 2003 in VSTO the point is moot,
since that won't support the ribbon unless you use something like the
PIA-less methods mentioned by Andrew Whitechapel of the VSTO team on his
blog. But access to the CommandBars collections is not a reason to fork any
code.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Professional Programming Outlook 2007.
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options.
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm


"Brunwin" wrote in message
...
Thanks.

1 worked. I don't think in VSTO 2005 SE I can do 2 though. I think it
points towards having to split the codebase for Office 2003 and Office
2007
in the future though.