IVsShell Members

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Provides access to the fundamental environment services, specifically those dealing with VSPackages and the registry.

The IVsShell type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	AdviseBroadcastMessages	Enables clients to receive messages that are typically broadcast only to the main application window.
	AdviseShellPropertyChanges	Enables clients to receive notifications of property changes to the environment.
	GetPackageEnum	Returns a standard enumerator to iterate through the VSPackages currently loaded by the environment.
	GetProperty	Returns an environment property.
	IsPackageInstalled	Determines whether a VSPackage identified by guidPackage is installed and registered with the system.
	IsPackageLoaded	Determines whether a VSPackage identified by the package GUID (guidPackage) is loaded in the environment.
	LoadPackage	Triggers a VSPackage implementation DLL to be loaded into the environment.
	LoadPackageString	Directly loads a localized string from a VSPackage satellite DLL.
	LoadUILibrary	Triggers the satellite DLL to load if it has not already done so.
	SetProperty	Sets an environment property.
	UnadviseBroadcastMessages	Disables clients from receiving messages typically broadcast only to the main application window.
	UnadviseShellPropertyChanges	Disables clients from receiving notifications of property changes to the environment.

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IVsShell Interface

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop Namespace