VS2005 Plugin with custom tooltip in c# code

[Daniel Amesberger]

Hi,
I'm currently working on a VS.NET 2005 plugin, and I need to show a custom
tooltip info in the C# code window, similar to the parameter info which is
displayed when typing a function name and bracket open.
Is there a way to do this?

Here is another problem: I managed to listen to the
EnvDTE80.TextDocumentKeyPressEvents event, but is there an event for
listening to selection changes, when the user moves around the cursor?
SelectionEvents.OnChange only fires when selecting another file in the IDE.

Thanks in advance!

greetings,
Daniel Amesberger

[Gary Chang[MSFT]]

Hi Daniel,

>I'm currently working on a VS.NET 2005 plugin, and I need to show a custom
>tooltip info in the C# code window, similar to the parameter info which is
>displayed when typing a function name and bracket open.

It appears you need a custom text marker to display the tooltip with C#
code, A text marker is a floating range of text in a buffer that can affect
the display and behavior of a region of text. Markers include breakpoints,
bookmarks, wavy underlines, and read-only regions. Please refer to the
corresponding VS Environment SDK doc and the follwoing Dr. Ex's WebLog
article:

How to: Create Custom Text Markers
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.VSIPCC.v80/MS.VSSDK.v80/dv_search/html/6e32ed81-c60
4-4a32-9012-8db3bec7c846.htm

How do I implement a custom Text marker?
http://blogs.msdn.com/dr._ex/archive/2004/06/09/152220.aspx

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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[Daniel Amesberger]

Thanks!
I currently solved that using some API calls, and it works very well.
The custom text marker seems to be the better solution, I'll take a look at
it.

Another question:
I'm listening to the OnBuildDone event, and do some script creation there.
When an error occurs I'd like to add it to the error list.
Is there a way to do that? I can only access the task list, but the error
list is read-only...

best regards, Daniel

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[Gary Chang[MSFT]]

Hi Daniel,

>When an error occurs I'd like to add it to the error list.
>Is there a way to do that?

I am afraid there is no way to do this from an add-in in VS 2005, we will
improve the Error list support through DTE interfaces in the nexe version
of Visual Studio.

For the issue about how to listen to the selection changes in text editor,
I suggest you take a look on the IVsTextViewEvents::OnChangeCaretLine to
track changes between lines. But there may no be a mechanism to detect
column changes.