ToolBox Interface

Represents the ToolBox in the integrated development environment (IDE).

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("56FCD5AF-7F17-4C5C-AA8D-AE2BB2DDBF38")> _
Public Interface ToolBox
[GuidAttribute("56FCD5AF-7F17-4C5C-AA8D-AE2BB2DDBF38")]
public interface ToolBox
[GuidAttribute(L"56FCD5AF-7F17-4C5C-AA8D-AE2BB2DDBF38")]
public interface class ToolBox
[<GuidAttribute("56FCD5AF-7F17-4C5C-AA8D-AE2BB2DDBF38")>]
type ToolBox =  interface end
public interface ToolBox

The ToolBox type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public property ActiveTab Gets the currently selected item in the ToolBox.
Public property DTE Gets the top-level extensibility object.
Public property Parent Gets the immediate parent object of a ToolBox object.
Public property ToolBoxTabs Gets the collection of all tabs in the ToolBox.

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Remarks

A Window object represents the ToolBox's window. The ToolBox contains a collection of ToolBoxTab objects, such as controls. Individual items in the ToolBox tabs are represented by ToolBoxItem objects.

A special tab named Clipboard contains the last 15 items cut or copied to the clipboard.

There is only one ToolBox object in the IDE.

Examples

Sub ToolboxExample()
    ' Define the variables and create an object reference to the IDE's  
    ' ToolBox object.
    Dim win As Window = DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox)
    Dim tlBox As ToolBox = win.Object
    Dim tbxTabs As ToolBoxTabs

    ' Create an object reference to the ToolBoxTabs object.
    tbxTabs = tlBox.ToolBoxTabs

    ' Now you can manipulate the ToolBox.
    ' List the total number of tabs in the ToolBox.
    MsgBox("Number of ToolBox tabs: " & tbxTabs.Count)
End Sub

See Also

Reference

EnvDTE Namespace