Addin: How to know if already opened doucment got focus?

Question

Hi experts,

I'm very much newbie to VS Addins.

Although, I subscribed to DocumentEvent.DocumentOpened. But additionally, I need to detect if already opened document got focus and I will read its contents then.

How to get its focused state?

Thanks

Farrukh

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Best regards Farrukh

Answer 1

Hi Farrukh,

I suspect you're looking for the _DTE.ActiveDocument property. Also, if you have the Document interface, you can also use Document.Activate to set a given document as the active document.

Sincerely,

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Ed Dore

Answer 2

Hi Ed,

Thanks for quick reply. I'm aware of this property actually (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/envdte._dte.activedocument%28v=VS.80%29.aspx). But this doesn't provide the required solution

Fortunately, after playing some sample code, I've got what I want. Its actually EnvDTE.WindowEvents.

In VS IDE, every Code Document is also a Window. And it has the Focus event: WindowActivated. Here is my delegate to subscribe for this event:

WinEvents.WindowActivated += new _dispWindowEvents_WindowActivatedEventHandler(WinEvents_WindowActivated);

void WinEvents_WindowActivated(Window GotFocus, Window LostFocus)        
{            
   Debug.WriteLine("GotFocus: " + GotFocus.Caption );            
   //throw new NotImplementedException();        
}

Best regards

Farrukh

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Best regards Farrukh