Target window pane frame

Get or Set the ImageMoniker for the icon for this tool window. This property should be used instead of BitmapResource and BitmapIndex to allow for DPI-aware icons.

Get or Set the index of the image to use in the bitmap strip for the window frame icon. BitmapImageMoniker should be used instead, as using BitmapIndex and BitmapResourceId results in an icon that is not DPI-aware.

Get or Set the resource ID for the bitmap strip from which to take the window frame icon. BitmapImageMoniker should be used instead, as using BitmapIndex and BitmapResourceId results in an icon that is not DPI-aware.

Get or Set the text on the title bar of the ToolWindow

Gets or sets the content of this tool window.

Get or Set the Frame (IvsWindowFrame) hosting the ToolWindow

Gets the initialization mode that is associated with this window pane.

Get or Set the Package (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package) owning the ToolWindow. This should only be set by the base Package class when it creates the toolwindow.

The search category that's used for storing MRU items (should the window search implementation for your toolwindow support most-recently-used search strings) By default, the toolwindow guid is used for the search category.

Override this if you want to support search in your window. You will also need to override other functions from IVsWindowSearch interface, like CreateSearch, etc.

Override this function if the toolwindow supports search filters The class WindowSearchFilterEnumerator can be used to construct an enumerator over an array of search filters implementing IVsWindowSearchFilter interface.

Gets the search host implementation associated with this tool window.

Override this function if the toolwindow supports search options The class WindowSearchOptionEnumerator can be used to construct an enumerator over an array of search options implementing IVsWindowSearchOption interface.

If the toolwindow has a ToolBar, it is described by this parameter. Otherwise this is null

If the toolwindow has a ToolBar then this property allows to customize its command target. If this value is null then window frame of this toolwindow is used as the command target for the ToolBar. Like other toolbar related properties, this property must be set before the initialization of the ToolWindowPane is complete.

If the toolwindow has a ToolBar, allows intercepting drag and drop operations on the toolbar. Otherwise this is null

Get or Set where the toolbar should be in the tool window (Up, down, left, right). This parameter is based on VSTWT_LOCATION

This is used to specify the CLSID of a tool that should be used for this toolwindow

Gets the window associated with this window pane.

Adds an info bar to this ToolWindowPane. The info bar will show at the top of the pane's frame when that frame is visible on screen.

Adds an info bar to this ToolWindowPane. The info bar will show at the top of the pane's frame when that frame is visible on screen.

Clear the pane of results from a previously completed or partial search

Override at least this function if you need to support search in a toolwindow

Disposes the window pane and its resources.

Disposes the resources of the window pane.

This method makes it possible to provide an IVsWindowPane not derived from ToolWindowPane To support that scenario one would override this method and create their IVsWindowPane and return it.

Gets the service of the specified type.

Initializes services after the window pane has been sited.

Override to load previously saved state of the pane

Raised when the window is closed.

Raised when the window pane is created.

Called when an action item on an info bar added via AddInfoBar is clicked. If this method is overridden, the base implementation must be called to raise the InfoBarActionItemClicked event.

Called when an info bar added via AddInfoBar is closed. If this method is overridden, the base implementation must be called to raise the InfoBarClosed event.

Allows the pane to intercept certains keys (after a search is started), and navigate between the results or select one of the results displayed in the pane.

This should be overriden if you want to run code before the window is shown but after its toolbar is added.

This method can be overriden by the derived class to execute any code that needs to run after the IVsWindowFrame is created. If the toolwindow has a toolbar with a combobox, it should make sure its command handler are set by the time they return from this method. This is called when someone set the Frame property.

Preprocesses the messages from navigation keys.

Allows override of default search settings. By default, the search is started delayed, with indefinite progress. The named of properties that can be overriden are defined in the class SearchSettingsDataSource.PropertyNames. Values implementing IVsUIObject interface can be constructed for common types using Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.BuiltInPropertyValue class, or one could use helper functions like Microsoft.Internal.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.Utilities.SetValue(Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsUIDataSource,System.String,System.Object) to set values in the data source.

Removes an info bar from this ToolWindowPane.

Removes and info bar from this ToolWindowPane.

Override to save custom state information to be used later when the pane is reconstructed.

Event raised when a button or hyperlink on an info bar associated with this ToolWindowPane is clicked.

Event raised when an info bar associated with this ToolWindowPane is closed.

Executes the specified command.

Gets the status of the commands.

Gets the service of the specified type.

Closes the pane.

Creates the pane.

When implemented in a derived class, gets the default size of the pane.

When implemented in a derived class, loads custom state storage.

Stores the state of the pane to the specified stream.

Sets the site for this window pane.

Handles keyboard accelerators before the shell processes the message.

Obsolete.

Closes the window pane. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Creates a window pane. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Gets the default size of the window pane. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Loads the saved view state. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Saves the loaded view state. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Initializes this window pane with the specified service provider. Obsolete.

Obsolete.

Handles the translation of navigation keys. Obsolete

Return the search category.

Menu

Toolbars

Windowsarea

Document pane

Window

Window pane

Default document pane

Set a default document pane

A document can be pinned to “stay in reach” using a pin button in its tab.

Shortcut - CTRL+SHIFT+p.

Pinned document

Other opened document tabs

Focused document

List all opened documents button

1. Right-clicking on a document tab opens the context menu with various close actions, open containing folder and copy name/path of the document, save document or add the document to template.

2. Right-click on the empty space of the document tab gives just some close actions.

3. Right-clicking on a view tab gives a close action for that view.

Current top document - highlighted

Documents which can not be seen and are not pinned - greyed out.

Pinned documents

Press CTRL+TAB inside Editor Window.  Document selector list shows documents in all document panes where each document pane gets its column.

Currently focused document

Currently selected document

Initially selected column/document

Full patch displayed of currently selected document

Window titles

Title of tabbed window

Tabbed windows

Relative to an underlying window, taking part of the target window space.

The dropped window takes app. 40% of the right space of the underlying window. Drop can be made in all 4 parts of the underlying window: top, bottom, left and right.

Holding the SHIFT key while in this drop mode, will allow the user to resize the space the new dock gets without switching to other drop modes.

Between two windows, taking space of both neighboring windows.

Both neighboring windows will lose ⅓ of their space for the newly positioned windows.

Holding the SHIFT key while in this drop mode, will allow the user to resize the space the new window gets without switching to other drop modes.

Tabbed mode

By dropping the window in the middle of a window pane or on the tabbed pane.

When dragging a window an indicator for tabbing will appear over the underlying window and the whole window will be colored in blue. By dropping over the indicator for tabbing the underlying window and the dragged window will be joined into a single window tabbed pane holding both windows.

Example: When we have a tabbed pane and we are dragging a window we also have an option to drag directly onto a window tab to specify the position the window tab will have in the tabbed pane as shown on the left side - the window will be placed in the third position in the tabbed pane.

Windows - Windows have their tabs below. A window tabbed pane can be merged with another window tabbed pane.

Document panes - The document panes have their tabs above the documents. A document pane can be merged with another document pane.

Holding the SHIFT key while in this drop mode, will allow the user to select a desired tab position without switching to other drop modes.

Floating frames

When dragging a window or a document pane out of other frames (e.g. winIDEA) a floating frame will occur and it will persist as a separate frame.

Adding a new window to its layout will make the standard windows frame title appear.

Tip: Dragging windows into other frames can sometimes be problematic as they can be partially obscured by other frames. Press the SHIFT key and the underlying frame will be brought to front and give full view of the obscured frame.

If while dragging, the CTRL key is held, the window will always remain in a separate frame no matter where it is dropped.

1. By dragging it left/right (up/down for vertically).

2.By holding the CTRL key the windows or documents can be expanded to take space from others (horizontally or vertically).

Resizing is canceled by pressing the ESC button.

Expanding vertically or horizontally.

Shrinking vertically or horizontally.