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NS - 29 Jul 2005 18:41 GMT

Hi,

I have a addin which when clicked should open a pdf document, may be outside
Visaul Studio IDE.

How can I do it??? I would appreciate if someone can suggest me something.

Thanx,
NS

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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe - 31 Jul 2005 13:48 GMT

Hi NS,

> I have a addin which when clicked should open a pdf document, may be
> outside
> Visaul Studio IDE.
>
> How can I do it??? I would appreciate if someone can suggest me something.

By coincidence we already do this in one of our products. The code to open a
URL (including PDF documents) within the internal Visual Studio browser is:

EnvDTE::WindowsPtr ptrWindows = m_pDTE->GetWindows();
IfNullIssueError(ptrWindows);

// Get the first window that's a browser.
EnvDTE::WindowPtr ptrBrowserWindow = ptrWindows->Item(
CComVariant(CComBSTR(EnvDTE::vsWindowKindWebBrowser) ) );
IfNullIssueError(ptrBrowserWindow);

// Force the window to be visible.
ptrBrowserWindow->PutVisible(true);

// Retrieve an interface to the Internet Explorer control inside the
browser window.
SHDocVw::IWebBrowser2Ptr ptrBrowser =
(SHDocVw::IWebBrowser2Ptr)ptrBrowserWindow->GetObject();

// Navigate to the URL
hr = ptrBrowser->Navigate( _bstr_t(sUrl), // Target URL
NULL, // Flags
NULL, // Target frame name
NULL, // PostData
NULL); // Headers

Hope that helps!

Kind Regards,

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Software/Product Development Consultant,
Riverblade Limited.
http://www.riverblade.co.uk

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