IVsRegisterEditors::RegisterEditor Method (Guid, IVsEditorFactory^, UInt32)

Visual Studio 2015

Registers an editor.

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

Syntax

int RegisterEditor(
	[InAttribute] Guid% rguidEditor,
	IVsEditorFactory^ pVsPF,
	[OutAttribute] unsigned int% pdwCookie
)

rguidEditor: Type: System::Guid
[in] Unique GUID of the editor that was registered.

pVsPF: Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop::IVsEditorFactory^
[in] Pointer to the IVsEditorFactory interface.

pdwCookie: Type: System::UInt32
[out] Abstract handle to be used later to unregister this editor.

Type: System::Int32

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

From vsshell.idl:

HRESULT IVsRegisterEditors::RegisterEditor(
   [in] REFGUID rguidEditor,
   [in] IVsEditorFactory *pVsPF,
   [out] VSCOOKIE *pdwCookie
);

The GUID of the editor factory that was registered is used in the VSPackages SetSite.