Hi Bill,
You can use GUID_BuildOutputWindowPane to get to that. Comments from the
vsshell.idl. If you are using mananged code you will have to define this in
your code it is nto exposed via the Helper dll.

Excerpt from the vsshell.IDL file.

//   "Build" -- Projects often display build errors/warnings in the "Build"
OutputWindow pane.
//              This pane is create by the SVsSolutionBuildManager service.
The pointer to
//              the pane is passed to projects as part of
IVsBuildableProjectCfg operations.
//   "General" -- Any party can display miscellaneous informational
messages that occur at any
//              time can be displayed in the "General" OutputWindow pane.
The "General" pane
//              can be retrieved by calling
QueryService(SID_SVsGeneralOutputWindowPane,
//              IID_IVsOutputWindowPane) as a global service.
cpp_quote("DEFINE_GUID(GUID_BuildOutputWindowPane, 0x1BD8A850, 0x02D1,
0x11d1, 0xbe, 0xe7, 0x0, 0xa0, 0xc9, 0x13, 0xd1, 0xf8);")

Thanks
Chetan N Parmar
VSCORE, MSFT

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Hi Bill,

You need to use QueryService to retrieve the IVsOutputWindow pointer. From
there you can use the IVsOutputWindow::GetPane() to retrieve the
IVsWindowPane you're looking for.

Note the guid passed to GetPane should be the same one you used to create
the pane with IVsOutputWindow::CreatePane. If you are attempting to
retrieve an existing pane, it might be easier to just use the DTE
automation model, as the guids associated with the outputwindow panes are
internal to the services that create them.

Sincerely,
Ed Dore [MSFT]

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