IVsTaskList2.SetActiveProvider Method

Article
2013-03-06

Selects the provider currently displayed in the tasklist.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function SetActiveProvider ( _
    ByRef rguidProvider As Guid _
) As Integer

int SetActiveProvider(
    ref Guid rguidProvider
)

int SetActiveProvider(
    [InAttribute] Guid% rguidProvider
)

abstract SetActiveProvider : 
        rguidProvider:Guid byref -> int

function SetActiveProvider(
    rguidProvider : Guid
) : int

Parameters

rguidProvider
Type: System.Guid%
[in] A Provider Identifier; an object of type REFGUID.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

Selecting the provider currently displayed in the tasklist should not be done automatically (e.g. in response to a build or run action), but only when explicitly requested by the user. Users get annoyed when we switch things like this automatically.

COM Signature

From vsshell80.idl:

HRESULT SetActiveProvider(
   [in] REFGUID rguidProvider
);

.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.

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