IVsInstalledProduct.ProductID Method
Obtains a pointer to the string containing the ID of the product that is displayed in the About dialog box on the Help menu. Not called for the splash screen.
Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Function ProductID ( _
<OutAttribute> ByRef pbstrPID As String _
) As Integer
int ProductID(
out string pbstrPID
)
int ProductID(
[OutAttribute] String^% pbstrPID
)
abstract ProductID :
pbstrPID:string byref -> int
function ProductID(
pbstrPID : String
) : int
Parameters
pbstrPID
Type: String%[out] Pointer to the string that identifies the product ID.
Return Value
Type: Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.
Remarks
COM Signature
From vsshell.idl:
HRESULT IVsInstalledProduct::ProductID(
[out, retval] BSTR *pbstrPID
);
IVsInstalledProduct.ProductID gets the number that is displayed in the Installed Products section of About dialog box. Generally, this method is used to show a product identifier that the customer can use when communicating with the client's product support services.
Examples
You can place the hard-coded paths and strings used by this method in your project's resource file.
.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.