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This interface provides access to basic windowing functionality, including access to and creation of tool windows and document windows.

The IVsUIShell type exposes the following members.

Methods

 

Name

Description

Public method

AddNewBFNavigationItem

Adds a new backward and forward navigation item.

Public method

CenterDialogOnWindow

Centers the provided dialog box HWND on the parent HWND (if provided), or on the main IDE window.

Public method

CreateDocumentWindow

This method creates a document window containing the embedding indicated by the punkDocView parameter.

Public method

CreateToolWindow

This method creates a tool window containing the embedding indicated by punkDocView, or the clsidDocView parameter, if the punkDocView parameter is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Public method

EnableModeless

Enables or disables a frame's modeless dialog box.

Public method

FindToolWindow

Returns the IVsWindowFrame pointer for the requested single-instance tool window.

Public method

FindToolWindowEx

Returns the IVsWindowFrame pointer for the requested single- or multi-instance tool window.

Public method

GetAppName

Returns the name of the application.

Public method

GetCurrentBFNavigationItem

Returns the current backward and forward navigation item.

Public method

GetDialogOwnerHwnd

Returns the HWND that can be used to parent modal dialogs.

Public method

GetDirectoryViaBrowseDlg

Brings up the Browse dialog box to find a directory location.

Public method

GetDocumentWindowEnum

Returns an enumerator that iterates through all existing document windows in the environment.

Public method

GetErrorInfo

Gets the text of error messages.

Public method

GetNextBFNavigationItem

Returns the next backward and forward navigation item.

Public method

GetOpenFileNameViaDlg

Brings up the Open dialog box to obtain an open file name.

Public method

GetPreviousBFNavigationItem

Returns the previous backward and forward navigation item.

Public method

GetSaveFileNameViaDlg

Brings up the Save As dialog box to save a file.

Public method

GetToolWindowEnum

Returns an enumerator that iterates through all of the existing tool windows in the environment.

Public method

GetURLViaDlg

Brings up Open Project From Web dialog box to obtain a URL from a user.

Public method

GetVSSysColor

This method is deprecated. Use GetVSSysColorEx instead.

Public method

OnModeChange

Internal method. Do not use.

Public method

PostExecCommand

Allows asynchronous execution of commands.

Public method

PostSetFocusMenuCommand

Sets focus in a combo box.

Public method

RefreshPropertyBrowser

Makes it possible for a project (or any other selected object being browsed by the Properties window) to keep the Properties window in sync with property changes without implementing IConnectionPointContainer and firing OnChanged events.

Public method

RemoveAdjacentBFNavigationItem

Removes an adjacent navigation item in the specified direction.

Public method

RemoveCurrentNavigationDupes

Removes navigation duplicates in backward and forward navigation.

Public method

ReportErrorInfo

Helper method that displays an error message to the user.

Public method

SaveDocDataToFile

Helper method used by editors that implement the IVsPersistDocData interface.

Public method

SetErrorInfo

Helper method that records rich information about an error.

Public method

SetForegroundWindow

Activates the environment application window by calling the SetForegroundWindow Win32 API.

Public method

SetMRUComboText

Adds information to a combo box list.

Public method

SetMRUComboTextW

Adds information to a combo box list.

Public method

SetToolbarVisibleInFullScreen

Sets the toolbar to visible when the window is in full-screen mode.

Public method

SetupToolbar

Called by VSPackage that creates a tool window in order to attach a toolbar to the tool window.

Public method

SetWaitCursor

Changes the cursor to the hourglass cursor.

Public method

ShowContextMenu

Shows the context menu for the active menu object.

Public method

ShowMessageBox

Manages implementation of a message box event.

Public method

TranslateAcceleratorAsACmd

Causes the environment to use the active key binding table to convert, if possible, a keyboard message into the appropriate command, then route the command using the usual command routing mechanism.

Public method

UpdateCommandUI

Informs the environment to update the state of the command bars (menus and toolbars).

Public method

UpdateDocDataIsDirtyFeedback

Makes it possible for a document data object to synchronously inform the environment when their document must be changed.

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Reference

IVsUIShell Interface

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop Namespace