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re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

jannemattila — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:23:17 GMT

Hi everybody!

I got an email from Greg, who wanted to achieve this same functionality from the VS Macro. I did little test with following code:

Imports System

Imports EnvDTE

Imports EnvDTE80

Imports System.Diagnostics

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Imports System.Windows.Forms

Public Module MyAddin

<DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="keybd_event")> _

Public Sub KeyboardEvent(ByVal bVk As System.UInt32, ByVal bScan As System.UInt32, ByVal dwFlags As System.UInt32, ByVal dwExtraInfo As System.UInt32)

End Sub

Public ReadOnly VK_LWIN As UInteger = 91

Public ReadOnly KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY As UInteger = 1

Public ReadOnly KEYEVENTF_KEYUP As UInteger = 2

Sub Macro1()

KeyboardEvent(VK_LWIN, 0, 0, 0)

KeyboardEvent(VK_LWIN, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)

SendKeys.Send("word{ENTER}")

End Sub

End Module

KeyboardEvent part works fine, but when you try to use SendKeys you got following error message:

"SendKeys cannot run inside this application because the application is not handling Windows messages. Either change the application to handle messages, or use SendKeys.SendWait method."

So you could make this stuff work from macro as well, but you can't use SendKeys.Send. No problem... just replace that line with this one:

SendKeys.SendWait("word{ENTER}")

So here's the final code:

Imports System

Imports EnvDTE

Imports EnvDTE80

Imports System.Diagnostics

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Imports System.Windows.Forms

Public Module MyAddin

<DllImport("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="keybd_event")> _

Public Sub KeyboardEvent(ByVal bVk As System.UInt32, ByVal bScan As System.UInt32, ByVal dwFlags As System.UInt32, ByVal dwExtraInfo As System.UInt32)

End Sub

Public ReadOnly VK_LWIN As UInteger = 91

Public ReadOnly KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY As UInteger = 1

Public ReadOnly KEYEVENTF_KEYUP As UInteger = 2

Sub Macro1()

KeyboardEvent(VK_LWIN, 0, 0, 0)

KeyboardEvent(VK_LWIN, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0)

SendKeys.SendWait("word{ENTER}")

End Sub

End Module

Happy hacking!

re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

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re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

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re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

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re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

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re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

Sasha — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:24:44 GMT

Hi,

Came across the article. Had a quick question though? Is there a way by which I can create an Add-In to catch key presses in Visual Studio. Thanks!

Sasha

re: Visual Studio Add-in: Use Vista Search directly from Visual Studio

jannemattila — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:22:27 GMT

Hi Sasha!

Actually I don't believe that you can do that easily. Of course there are ways to start listening keyboard presses to achieve some kind of fancy features but you need to be careful not to make it spend too many CPU cycles on your custom feature.

What is that you're trying to achieve?

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