ToolBox Interface
Visual Studio 2015
Represents the ToolBox in the integrated development environment (IDE).
Assembly: EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | ActiveTab | Gets the currently selected item in the ToolBox. |
![]() | DTE | Gets the top-level extensibility object. |
![]() | Parent | Gets the immediate parent object of a ToolBox object. |
![]() | ToolBoxTabs | Gets the collection of all tabs in the ToolBox. |
A Window object represents the ToolBox's window. The ToolBox contains a collection of ToolBoxTab objects, such as controls. Individual items in the ToolBox tabs are represented by ToolBoxItem objects.
A special tab named Clipboard contains the last 15 items cut or copied to the clipboard.
There is only one ToolBox object in the IDE.
Sub ToolboxExample() ' Define the variables and create an object reference to the IDE's ' ToolBox object. Dim win As Window = DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox) Dim tlBox As ToolBox = win.Object Dim tbxTabs As ToolBoxTabs ' Create an object reference to the ToolBoxTabs object. tbxTabs = tlBox.ToolBoxTabs ' Now you can manipulate the ToolBox. ' List the total number of tabs in the ToolBox. MsgBox("Number of ToolBox tabs: " & tbxTabs.Count) End Sub
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