Button Element

Defines an element that the user can interact with. There are four kinds of Buttons, as follows: Button, MenuButton, SplitDropDown, and Swatch.

<Button guid="guidMyCommandSet" id="MyCommand" priority="0x102" type="button">
  <Parent>... </Parent>
  <Icon>... </Icon>
  <CommandFlag>... </CommandFlag>
  <Strings>... </Strings>
</Button>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
guid	Required. GUID of the GUID/ID command identifier.
id	Required. ID of the GUID/ID command identifier.
priority	Optional. A numeric value that specifies the priority.
type	Optional. An enumerated value that specifies the kind of button. If not given, uses Button. Button A standard command that appears on toolbars (typically as an iconic button), menus, and context menus. MenuButton A menu item that does not execute a command, but produces another menu. SplitDropDown Controls, such as the Undo and Redo buttons on the standard toolbar in Microsoft Word.
Condition	Optional. See VSCT XML Schema Conditional Attributes.

Child Elements

Element	Description
Parent Element	Optional. The parent element of the button.
Icon Element	Optional. The icon associated with the button.
Command Flag Element	Required. The valid CommandFlag values for a Button are as follows. AllowParamsCommandWellOnly DefaultDisabledDefaultInvisible DontCacheDynamicItemStart DynamicVisibilityFixMenuController IconAndTextNoButtonCustomize NoCustomizeNoKeyCustomize NoShowOnMenuControllerPict PostExecProfferedCmd RouteToDocsTextCascadeUseBtn TextMenuUseButtonTextChanges TextChangesButtonTextContextUseButton TextMenuCtrlUseMenuTextMenuUseButton TextOnly
Strings Element	Required. The child ButtonText Element must be defined.
Annotation	Optional comment.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Buttons Element	Groups Button elements.

Example

The following example defines a button in a .vsct file.

<Button guid="guidMenuTextCmdSet" id="cmdidMyCommand" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
  <Parent guid="guidMenuTextCmdSet" id="MyMenuGroup" />
  <Icon guid="guidImages" id="bmpPic1" />
  <CommandFlag>TextChanges</CommandFlag>
  <Strings>
    <CommandName>cmdidMyCommand</CommandName>
    <ButtonText>My Command name</ButtonText>
  </Strings>
</Button>

See Also

Other Resources

Visual Studio Command Table (.Vsct) Files