ToolWindows Interface
Improves discoverability and usability of tool windows in the object model by providing easy access to the shell’s tool windows in their native types.
Assembly: EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | CommandWindow | Gets the CommandWindow object. |
![]() | DTE | Gets the top-level extensibility object. |
![]() | ErrorList | Gets the list of errors displayed in the IDE. |
![]() | OutputWindow | Gets the OutputWindow object. |
![]() | SolutionExplorer | Gets a UIHierarchy object representing Solution Explorer. |
![]() | TaskList | Gets the TaskList object. |
![]() | ToolBox | Gets the ToolBox object. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | GetToolWindow(String) | Allows the user to retrieve a window by its title. |
Visual Studio tool windows may be accessed through member properties. Other tool windows may be located with the GetToolWindow function.
This example adds an Output Window, titled "My output", activates it, and displays all the tool windows reached through the Collection object of the parent ToolWindows object.
using EnvDTE; using EnvDTE80; using System.Windows.Forms; public void OutputToolWindow(DTE2 dte) { OutputWindow myOut; myOut = _applicationObject.ToolWindows.OutputWindow; OutputWindowPane myPane; String txt = null; MessageBox.Show("Creating an output window."); myPane = myOut.OutputWindowPanes.Add("My output"); myPane.Activate(); MessageBox.Show("Adding some text to the output window..."); myPane.OutputString("This is the collection of tool windows,reached through the Output Window object:" + "\n"); foreach (EnvDTE80.Window2 tempWindow in myOut.Parent.Collection) { txt = txt + (tempWindow.Caption + "\n"); } MessageBox.Show("Displaying all the tool window captions in the output window..."); myPane.OutputString(txt); }

