IVsInstalledProduct::ProductID Method (String^)

Visual Studio 2015

Obtains a pointer to the string containing the ID of the product that is displayed in the About dialog box on the Help menu. Not called for the splash screen.

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

Syntax

C++

int ProductID(
	[OutAttribute] String^% pbstrPID
)

Parameters

pbstrPID: Type: System::String^
[out] Pointer to the string that identifies the product ID.

Return Value

Type: System::Int32

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

Remarks

COM Signature

From vsshell.idl:

C++

HRESULT IVsInstalledProduct::ProductID(
   [out, retval] BSTR *pbstrPID
);

IVsInstalledProduct.ProductID gets the number that is displayed in the Installed Products section of About dialog box. Generally, this method is used to show a product identifier that the customer can use when communicating with the client's product support services.

Examples

You can place the hard-coded paths and strings used by this method in your project's resource file.