ToolBoxItems Interface

Contains all items in a ToolBox tab.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("395C7DFB-F158-431C-8F43-DDA83B4EF54E")> _
Public Interface ToolBoxItems _
    Inherits IEnumerable
[GuidAttribute("395C7DFB-F158-431C-8F43-DDA83B4EF54E")]
public interface ToolBoxItems : IEnumerable
[GuidAttribute(L"395C7DFB-F158-431C-8F43-DDA83B4EF54E")]
public interface class ToolBoxItems : IEnumerable
[<GuidAttribute("395C7DFB-F158-431C-8F43-DDA83B4EF54E")>]
type ToolBoxItems =  
    interface
        interface IEnumerable
    end
public interface ToolBoxItems extends IEnumerable

The ToolBoxItems type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public property Count Gets a value indicating the number of objects in the ToolBoxItems collection.
Public property DTE Gets the top-level extensibility object.
Public property Parent Gets the immediate parent object of a ToolBoxItems object.
Public property SelectedItem Gets the item currently selected in the tab of the ToolBox, if any exist.

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Methods

  Name Description
Public method Add Creates a new item and adds it to the ToolBox.
Public method GetEnumerator Gets an enumerator for items in the collection.
Public method Item Returns a ToolBoxItem object in a ToolBoxItems collection.

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Remarks

The default property of the ToolBoxItems collection is Item, which can be indexed either by name or by ordinal number.

Examples

Sub ToolBoxItemsExample()
    Dim tlBox As ToolBox
    Dim tbxTabs As ToolBoxTabs
    Dim tbxTab As ToolBoxTab
    Dim tbxItems As ToolBoxItems

    Try
        ' Create an object reference to the IDE's ToolBox object and
        ' its tabs.
        tlBox = DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox).Object
        tbxTabs = tlBox.ToolBoxTabs

        ' Add a new tab to the ToolBox and select it.
        tbxTab = tbxTabs.Add("New ToolBox Tab")
        tbxTab.Activate()

        ' Add new items to the new ToolBox tab. This shows two
        ' different ways to index the ToolBox tabs. The third item
        ' added is a .NET component that contains a number of 
        ' Web-related controls.
        tbxTab.ToolBoxItems.Add("Text Item", "Hello world")
        tbxTab.ToolBoxItems.Add("HTML Item", "Hello world", _
        vsToolBoxItemFormat.vsToolBoxItemFormatHTML)
        tbxTabs.Item("New ToolBox Tab").ToolBoxItems.Add("DotNET _
        Component", "C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 _
        \System.Web.dll", vsToolBoxItemFormat. _
        vsToolBoxItemFormatDotNETComponent)

        ' Use the ToolboxItems collection to access all the items under 
        ' a ToolBox tab.
        tbxItems = tbxTab.ToolBoxItems

        ' List number of ToolboxItems in a ToolBoxTab.
        MsgBox("Number of items in " & tbxTabs.Item(1).Name & " tab: _
        " & tbxItems.Count)

        ' Select the second item in the ToolboxItems collection and 
        ' delete it.
        tbxItems.Item(2).Select()
        If (MsgBox("Delete second ToolBox item?", vbYesNo) = vbYes) _
        Then
            tbxItems.SelectedItem.Delete()
            MsgBox("Number of items in " & tbxTabs.Item(1).Name & " _
            tab: " & tbxItems.Count)
        End If
    Catch ex As System.Exception
        MsgBox("ERROR: " & ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub

See Also

Reference

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Control the Toolbox