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Krish - 10 May 2005 12:28 GMT

I have implemented an Add-in that opens a toolwindow when user clicks a
commandbar button. I need to pass data to the toolwindow every time user
clicks the commandbar button.
Currently I have implemented part of it by creating static variables in
Connect class of the Add-in reading them from onload event of the user
control hosted inside shim control. Everything looks good first time. As
Toolwindow gets loaded only once, second time onwards load event does not
happen and I could not refresh user control with new values. There must be a
way to dynamically pass data to Toolwindow, but I could not find how. Please
let me know if anybody did this before.
Regards,
Krishna

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Krish - 10 May 2005 12:34 GMT

The work around for this is Close and activate toolwindow but it causes
flickering. Is there a clean way of doing this?
Thanks,
Krish

> I have implemented an Add-in that opens a toolwindow when user clicks a
> commandbar button. I need to pass data to the toolwindow every time user
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> Regards,
> Krishna

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Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 10 May 2005 14:50 GMT

When you create the toolwindow via CreateToolwindow, you get a EnvDTE.Window
instance and a usercontrol instance (hosted inside the toolwindow). You must
hold a reference to the usercontrol in your connect class. Add a method to
the usercontrol, and call it whenever the commandbar button is clicked
through that reference. The window and the usercontrol must be created only
if the reference is null (the first time). Otherwise, you have only to make
visible the toolwindow.

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>I have implemented an Add-in that opens a toolwindow when user clicks a
> commandbar button. I need to pass data to the toolwindow every time user
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> Regards,
> Krishna

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Krish - 12 May 2005 05:40 GMT

Thank you.
Krish

> When you create the toolwindow via CreateToolwindow, you get a EnvDTE.Window
> instance and a usercontrol instance (hosted inside the toolwindow). You must
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> > Regards,
> > Krishna

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