Advanced Editor Scenarios

The Visual Studio SDK offers many advanced features to extend editors. The following are some editor features discussed in more detail.

In This Section

• How to: Fire Events When the Editor Loses Focus
  Details the steps to follow to receive notification of the editor losing focus.

• How to: Host An Editor in Another Editor
  Describes how to host an editor inside the window frame of another editor.

• Document Lock Holder Management
  Discusses the mechanism that maintains a count of open documents and the locks on them.

Related Sections

• How to: Register Editor Factories
  Details the steps for providing the integrated development environment (IDE) with a pointer to the editor factory.

• Editors
  Discusses support in Visual Studio for creating an editor that can be hosted in the IDE.