IVsToolbox3.GetGeneralTabID Method

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2013-03-06

Gets the ID for the General tab.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Function GetGeneralTabID ( _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef pbstrTabID As String _
) As Integer

int GetGeneralTabID(
    out string pbstrTabID
)

int GetGeneralTabID(
    [OutAttribute] String^% pbstrTabID
)

abstract GetGeneralTabID : 
        pbstrTabID:string byref -> int

function GetGeneralTabID(
    pbstrTabID : String
) : int

Parameters

pbstrTabID
Type: System.String%
[out] The locale-invariant ID of the Toolbox tab.

Return Value

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

Remarks

GetGeneralTabID returns the unique ID of the General tab, so packages can select that tab without having to hard-code the ID or attempt to look it up in a resource table.

COM Signature

From vsshell80.idl:

HRESULT GetGeneralTabID(
    [out] BSTR* pbstrTabID
);

.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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