CommandWindow.Parent Property

Gets the immediate parent object of a given object.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property Parent As Window

Window Parent { get; }

property Window^ Parent {
    Window^ get ();
}

abstract Parent : Window with get

function get Parent () : Window

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE.Window
A Window object.

Remarks

The Parent property returns the immediate parent to the object or collection.

Examples

public void CodeExample(DTE2 dte, AddIn addin)
{
    try
    {
        // Get a reference to a Command window.
        Window win = dte.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindCommandWindow);
        CommandWindow cmdWin = (CommandWindow)win.Object;
        // Add some text to the window.
        cmdWin.OutputString("This is a line of text in the CommandWindow TextDocument");
        // Return the contents of the TextDocument and display them.
        TextDocument txtDoc = cmdWin.TextDocument;
        TextSelection txtSel = txtDoc.Selection;
        TextRanges txtRanges = txtSel.TextRanges;
        // Show text in textdocument.
        foreach (TextRange txtRange in txtRanges)
        {
            txtRange.StartPoint.StartOfDocument();
            MessageBox.Show(txtRange.StartPoint.GetText(txtRange.EndPoint));
        }
        // Show the CommandWindow's parent object's caption property.
        MessageBox.Show("The Parent window's caption: " + cmdWin.Parent.Caption);
        // Show the application object containing the CommandWindow.
        MessageBox.Show(cmdWin.DTE.Name);
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

CommandWindow Interface

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples