ToolBoxTab2.ListView Property

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03/18/2013

Gets or sets a value indicating whether items in a particular ToolBox tab display in List view or Icon view format.

Namespace: EnvDTE80
Assembly: EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Property ListView As Boolean

bool ListView { get; set; }

property bool ListView {
    bool get ();
    void set (bool value);
}

abstract ListView : bool with get, set

function get ListView () : boolean
function set ListView (value : boolean)

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the ToolBox tab is in List view; otherwise, false.

Implements

ToolBoxTab.ListView

Remarks

ListView applies on a tab-by-tab basis in the ToolBox. That is, one tab can have List view while another has Icon view.

The List and Icon views are similar to those in Windows Explorer. In List view, the contents of the Toolbox are listed as text descriptions, one after another, with an icon on the left side. In Icon view, each item is represented only by an icon. You can get a ToolTip description of the icon by rolling the mouse over it.

Examples

This example toggles the ListView property of a Toolbox tab. For more information about how to run this example as an add-in, see How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples.

Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Public Sub OnConnection(ByVal application As Object, _
 ByVal connectMode As ext_ConnectMode, ByVal addInInst As Object, _
 ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection
    _applicationObject = CType(application, DTE2)
    _addInInstance = CType(addInInst, AddIn)
    ToolBoxListViewExample(_applicationObject)
End Sub
Sub ToolBoxListViewExample(ByVal dte As DTE2)
    Dim tlBox As ToolBox
    Dim tbxTabs As ToolBoxTabs
    Dim tbxTab As ToolBoxTab2
    Dim tbxItem As ToolBoxItem
    ' Before runiing this example, open a Windows Form project,
    ' and select Toolbox from the View menu.
    Try
        ' Create an object reference to the IDE's ToolBox object and
        ' its tabs.
        tlBox = CType(_applicationObject.Windows.Item _
         (Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox).Object, ToolBox)
        tbxTabs = tlBox.ToolBoxTabs
        ' Select the first ToolBox tab.
        tbxTab = CType(tbxTabs.Item(3), ToolBoxTab2)
        MsgBox(tbxTab.Name)
        tbxTab.Activate()
        tbxItem = tbxTab.ToolBoxItems.Item(1)
        MsgBox("Toolbox item name: " & tbxItem.Name)
        MsgBox("Turning Toolbox to List view...")
        tbxTab.ListView = False
        MsgBox("Turning Toolbox to Icon view...")
        tbxTab.ListView = True
    Catch ex As System.Exception
        MsgBox("ERROR: " & ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub

using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public void OnConnection(object application, 
ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
{
    _applicationObject = (DTE2)application;
    _addInInstance = (AddIn)addInInst;
    ToolBoxListViewExample(_applicationObject);
}
public void ToolBoxListViewExample(DTE2 dte)
{
    ToolBox tlBox;
    ToolBoxTabs tbxTabs;
    ToolBoxTab2 tbxTab;
    ToolBoxItem tbxItem;
    // Before running this example, open a Windows Form project
    // and select Toolbox from the View menu.
    try
    {
        //Create an object reference to the IDE's ToolBox object and
        // its tabs.
        tlBox = (ToolBox)_applicationObject.Windows.Item
(Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox).Object;
        tbxTabs = tlBox.ToolBoxTabs;
        // Select the first Toolbox tab.
        tbxTab = (ToolBoxTab2)tbxTabs.Item(3);
        MessageBox.Show(tbxTab.Name);
        tbxItem = tbxTab.ToolBoxItems.Item(1);
        MessageBox.Show("Toolbox item name: " + tbxItem.Name);
        MessageBox.Show("Turning Toolbox to List view...");
        tbxTab.ListView = false;
        MessageBox.Show("Turning Toolbox to Icon view...");
        tbxTab.ListView = true;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("ERROR: " + ex.Message);
    }
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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