Windows2 Interface
Visual Studio 2015
The Windows collection contains all windows in the environment.
Assembly: EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | CreateLinkedWindowFrame(Window, Window, vsLinkedWindowType) | Creates a Window object and places two windows in it. |
![]() | CreateToolWindow(AddIn, String, String, String, Object) | Creates a new tool window containing the specified Document object or ActiveX control. |
![]() | CreateToolWindow2(AddIn, String, String, String, String, Object) | Creates a new tool window and hosts a user-defined, .NET control in it. |
![]() | GetEnumerator() | Gets an enumeration for items in a collection. |
![]() | Item(Object) | Returns an indexed member of a Windows collection. |
This example links together the Output Window, the Command Window, and Solution Explorer. It then manipulates the width and height of these linked windows, and it finally undocks them all from the linked window frame.
using EnvDTE; using EnvDTE80; using System.Windows.Forms; public void LinkedWindowsExample(DTE2 dte) { Window2 Frame; Windows2 wins; wins = (EnvDTE80.Windows2)_applicationObject.Windows; Window2 w1 = (EnvDTE80.Window2)_applicationObject.Windows.Item (Constants.vsWindowKindSolutionExplorer); Window2 w2 = (EnvDTE80.Window2)_applicationObject.Windows.Item (Constants.vsWindowKindOutput); Window2 w3 = (EnvDTE80.Window2)_applicationObject.Windows.Item (Constants.vsWindowKindCommandWindow); // Create a linked window frame and dock Solution Explorer // and the Output window together inside it. Frame = (EnvDTE80.Window2)wins.CreateLinkedWindowFrame (w1, w2, vsLinkedWindowType.vsLinkedWindowTypeDocked); MessageBox.Show("Total number of windows in the linked window frame: " + Frame.LinkedWindows.Count); // Add another tool window, the Command window, to the frame with // the other two. Frame.LinkedWindows.Add(w3); MessageBox.Show("Total number of windows in the linked window frame: " + Frame.LinkedWindows.Count); // Resize the entire linked window frame. Frame.Width = 500; Frame.Height = 600; MessageBox.Show("Frame height and width changed. Now changing Command window height."); // Resize the height of the Command window. Frame.LinkedWindows.Item(3).Height = 800; MessageBox.Show("Now undocking the Command window from the frame."); // Undock the Command window from the frame. Frame.LinkedWindows.Remove(w3); MessageBox.Show("Now undocking the rest of the windows from the frame."); Frame.LinkedWindows.Remove(w2); Frame.LinkedWindows.Remove(w1); }
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