VS Shell 2010 IDE Customization

Question

I am doing some kind of research on VS Shell 2010 and trying to explore the services provided by Shell.

I am able to add a custom toolbar into Shell through VS Packages and added a combobox into that custom toolbar. Now I am trying to fill that combobox reading values from xml file. I also have a button after combobox. On Click of button it will give the element being selected in the combobox.

How do I get reference to this combobox from my VS PACKAGE? Or is there any other way to achieve this. My requirement is to fill this combobox and retreive the value on click of button.

Answer 1

Hi Arujit,

Comboboxes are filled by responding to IOleCommandTarget::Exec when the "pvaOut" argument is not NULL. Your code should respond by creating a SAFEARRAY of strings (BSTR) and returning it as the pvaOut argument, a (VT_ARRAY | VT_BSTR).

See also, these two postings with a similar question:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/f1b89ce8-4837-4a72-be55-76cb96b2de97
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/76dff985-5510-4c50-a4f5-296441b057ac/

- Paul Harrington

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Visual Studio Platform and Ecosystem