I have been able to get some code from one of my colleagues and Extensibility support specialist, Ed Dore, that may help with the Toolbox control installation in Visual Studio 2005. I must remind you that the code that I post here comes with a Disclaimer.
In the code below you need to replace the following with your values:
<Path to the control dll>: Path to the dll that contains the toolbox control
<Toolbox Tabname>: Name of the Toolbox tab on which to add the controls.
HTH,
Chetan
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;
using System.IO;
namespace InstallToolboxControls
{
// Definition of the IMessageFilter interface which we need to implement and
// register with the CoRegisterMessageFilter API.
[ComImport(), Guid("00000016-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"),
InterfaceTypeAttribute(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
interface IOleMessageFilter // Renamed to avoid confusion w/ System.Windows.Forms.IMessageFilter
{
[PreserveSig]
int HandleInComingCall(int dwCallType, IntPtr hTaskCaller, int dwTickCount, IntPtr lpInterfaceInfo);
[PreserveSig]
int RetryRejectedCall(IntPtr hTaskCallee, int dwTickCount, int dwRejectType);
[PreserveSig]
int MessagePending(IntPtr hTaskCallee, int dwTickCount, int dwPendingType);
}
class Program : IOleMessageFilter
{
[DllImport("ole32.dll")]
private static extern int CoRegisterMessageFilter(IOleMessageFilter newFilter, out IOleMessageFilter oldFilter);
static string ctrlPath = <Path to the control dll>;
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Program program = new Program();
program.Register();
if (args[0].Equals("-Install", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
program.InstallControl();
else if (args[0].Equals("-UnInstall", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))
program.UninstallControl();
program.Revoke();
// to ensure the dte object is actually released, and the devenv.exe process terminates.
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
}
void InstallControl()
{
// Create an instance of the VS IDE,
Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0");
DTE dte = (DTE)System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
// create a temporary winform project;
string tmpFile = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Path.GetTempFileName());
string tmpDir = string.Format("{0}{1}",Path.GetTempPath(),tmpFile);
Solution2 solution = dte.Solution as Solution2;
string templatePath = solution.GetProjectTemplate("WindowsApplication.zip", "CSharp");
Project proj = solution.AddFromTemplate(templatePath, tmpDir, "dummyproj", false);
// add the control to the toolbox.
EnvDTE.Window window = dte.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox);
EnvDTE.ToolBox toolbox = (EnvDTE.ToolBox)window.Object;
EnvDTE.ToolBoxTab myTab = toolbox.ToolBoxTabs.Add(<Toolbox TabName>);
myTab.Activate();
myTab.ToolBoxItems.Add("MyUserControl", ctrlPath, vsToolBoxItemFormat.vsToolBoxItemFormatDotNETComponent);
dte.Solution.Close(false);
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(dte);
Console.WriteLine("Control Installed!!!");
}
void UninstallControl()
{
Type type = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.8.0");
DTE dte = (DTE)System.Activator.CreateInstance(type, true);
EnvDTE.Window window = dte.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindToolbox);
EnvDTE.ToolBox toolbox = (EnvDTE.ToolBox)window.Object;
EnvDTE.ToolBoxTab myTab = toolbox.ToolBoxTabs.Item(<Toolbox Tabname>);
myTab.Activate();
myTab.Delete();
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(dte);
Console.WriteLine("Control Uninstalled!!!");
}
void Register()
{
IOleMessageFilter oldFilter;
CoRegisterMessageFilter(this, out oldFilter);
}
void Revoke()
{
IOleMessageFilter oldFilter;
CoRegisterMessageFilter(null, out oldFilter);
}
#region IOleMessageFilter Members
public int HandleInComingCall(int dwCallType, IntPtr hTaskCaller, int dwTickCount, IntPtr lpInterfaceInfo)
{
return 0; //SERVERCALL_ISHANDLED
}
public int RetryRejectedCall(IntPtr hTaskCallee, int dwTickCount, int dwRejectType)
{
if (dwRejectType == 2) // SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER
return 200; // wait 2 seconds and try again
return -1; // cancel call
}
public int MessagePending(IntPtr hTaskCallee, int dwTickCount, int dwPendingType)
{
return 2; //PENDINGMSG_WAITDEFPROCESS
}
#endregion
}
}
