ProvideToolWindowVisibilityAttribute Class
Maps a tool window to one or more UI contexts, so that the window is displayed when the user switches to one of those contexts and is hidden when the user switches away from one of the contexts.
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.14.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.14.0.dll)
System.Attribute
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.RegistrationAttribute
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.ProvideToolWindowVisibilityAttribute
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | ProvideToolWindowVisibilityAttribute(Object, String) | Initializes a new instance of ProvideToolWindowVisibilityAttribute for the specified type of the tool window and a GUID to associate with its visibility. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | CommandUIGuid | Gets the GUID of a command associated with showing or hiding the tool window. |
![]() | Name | Gets or sets the name of the window. |
![]() | TypeId | Gets the current instance of this attribute.(Inherited from RegistrationAttribute.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Equals(Object) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() | GetType() | (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | IsDefaultAttribute() | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() | Match(Object) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() | Register(RegistrationAttribute.RegistrationContext) | Registers the tool window visibility.(Overrides RegistrationAttribute.Register(RegistrationAttribute.RegistrationContext).) |
![]() | ToString() | (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Unregister(RegistrationAttribute.RegistrationContext) | Removes the registry key.(Overrides RegistrationAttribute.Unregister(RegistrationAttribute.RegistrationContext).) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() | _Attribute.GetIDsOfNames(Guid, IntPtr, UInt32, UInt32, IntPtr) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() ![]() | _Attribute.GetTypeInfo(UInt32, UInt32, IntPtr) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() ![]() | _Attribute.GetTypeInfoCount(UInt32) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
![]() ![]() | _Attribute.Invoke(UInt32, Guid, UInt32, Int16, IntPtr, IntPtr, IntPtr, IntPtr) | (Inherited from Attribute.) |
Applying this attribute to a subclass of the ToolWindowPane results in a tool window that the Visual Studio shell automatically shows or hides. The appearance of this window depends on the internal visibility attribute and the UI context information described in the package's .vsct file. If Visual Studio automatically shows a window and the user closes it, after that Visual Studio will never automatically show the window again. In order to see the tool window again after it has been closed, the user must manually open the window or delete \<USER>\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\<version>\1033\windows.prf, the Visual Studio file that saves shell information (including which windows are open, their location and size) when Visual Studio shuts down. After the window's internal visibility state is reset to true, the expected visibility behavior again occurs.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.



