IVsPersistDocData::GetGuidEditorType Method (Guid)

Visual Studio 2015

Returns the unique identifier of the editor factory that created the IVsPersistDocData object.

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

Syntax

C++

int GetGuidEditorType(
	[OutAttribute] Guid% pClassID
)

Parameters

pClassID: Type: System::Guid
[out] Pointer to the class identifier of the editor type.

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 IVsPersistDocData::GetGuidEditorType(
   [out] CLSID *pClassID
);

The environment's implementation of the DTE automation document data object calls IVsPersistDocData::GetGuidEditorType in the document data object's implementation of the Kind Property [Variant 2] (General Extensibility).You need to return a GUID that identifies your document type. This GUID is not used as a CLSID to be passed to CoCreateInstance, or similar functions.