IOleComponentUIManager.ShowHelp Method

Article
04/29/2015

Requests the display of Help information.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function ShowHelp ( _
    dwCompRole As UInteger, _
    ByRef rclsidComp As Guid, _
    posMouse As POINT, _
    dwHelpCmd As UInteger, _
    pszHelpFile As String, _
    dwData As UInteger _
) As Integer

int ShowHelp(
    uint dwCompRole,
    ref Guid rclsidComp,
    POINT posMouse,
    uint dwHelpCmd,
    string pszHelpFile,
    uint dwData
)

int ShowHelp(
    [InAttribute] unsigned int dwCompRole, 
    [InAttribute] Guid% rclsidComp, 
    [InAttribute] POINT posMouse, 
    [InAttribute] unsigned int dwHelpCmd, 
    [InAttribute] String^ pszHelpFile, 
    [InAttribute] unsigned int dwData
)

abstract ShowHelp : 
        dwCompRole:uint32 * 
        rclsidComp:Guid byref * 
        posMouse:POINT * 
        dwHelpCmd:uint32 * 
        pszHelpFile:string * 
        dwData:uint32 -> int

function ShowHelp(
    dwCompRole : uint, 
    rclsidComp : Guid, 
    posMouse : POINT, 
    dwHelpCmd : uint, 
    pszHelpFile : String, 
    dwData : uint
) : int

Parameters

dwCompRole
Type: UInt32

[in] Role of the VSPackage object requesting the Help display. For a list of valid dwCompRole values, see OLEROLE.

rclsidComp
Type: Guid%

[in] Class identifier (CLSID) of the VSPackage object requesting the Help display.

posMouse
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.POINT

[in] Identifies the position of the mouse.

dwHelpCmd
Type: UInt32

[in] Identifies the Help command to be invoked.

pszHelpFile
Type: String

[in] Points to the path to the Help file to be displayed.

dwData
Type: UInt32

[in] Data specific to the VSPackage object.

Return Value

Type: Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From oleipc.idl:

HRESULT IOleComponentUIManager::ShowHelp(
   [in] DWORD dwCompRole,
   [in] REFCLSID rclsidComp,
   [in] POINT posMouse,
   [in] DWORD dwHelpCmd,
   [in] LPOLESTR pszHelpFile,
   [in] DWORD dwData
);

ShowHelp calls the legacy SVsHelpService service. VSPackages can access a newer service for help by calling QueryService and requesting SID_SVsHelp and IID_Help.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.