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    <h1>My Problem</h1> <p>I'm trying to build an extension to Visual Studio that allows code to be edited on a per-function basis, rather than a per-file basis. I'm basically attempting to display code in a similar fashion to <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4a979842-b9aa-4adf-bfef-83bd428a0acb" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Debugger Canvas</a>.</p> <p>I'm wondering how to host multiple Visual Studio editors within a single window (I believe the windows are implementing IVsWindowFrame). The functionality I'm after can be seen below:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ldeN.png" alt="Microsoft Debugger Canvas"></p> <p>Each editor window retains typical functionality and interacts with third-party extensions as expected. (For example, VsVim functions correctly within these windows).</p> <h1>What I've Tried</h1> <p>I've spent almost two weeks researching and trying this stuff and I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out which services, interfaces and classes I'm going to be using.</p> <h3>Reading through MSDN</h3> <p>First off, most of the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd885122.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a> discusses how to edit a single editor window and add adornments, tags, margins etc. It doesn't discuss the possibility of spawning multiple editors within a window pane.</p> <p>I've looked through the documentation on a vast number of interfaces of interest to me including <code>IVsTextBuffer</code>, <code>IVsTextView</code> and <code>IVsInvisibleEditor</code>. Unfortunately I can't get some of these interfaces to play nicely together. </p> <p>On top this, the usually excellent MSDN is extremely lacking in this area. Many of the interfaces contain only a list of members without even a basic remark on intended use and functional. (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.componentmodelhost.icomponentmodel.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IComponentModel</a>, for example).</p> <p>Many of the interfaces make reference to a set of <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb165405%28v=vs.80%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Editor Samples</a> but the code cannot be read or downloaded on MSDN. Apparently it shipped with Visual Studio 2005, but I don't have this version of Visual Studio, nor can I find it.</p> <h3>Interacting with IVsUIShell</h3> <p>I can get access to all WindowFrames open using <code>IVsUIShell.GetDocumentWindowEnum();</code> I see there is an <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.ivsuishell.createdocumentwindow%28v=vs.80%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IVsUiShell.CreateDocumentWindow()</a> method, but I'm completely unfamiliar with the parameters it accepts, or if this is the correct path to go down.</p> <h1>What I need to do</h1> <ol> <li>Programatically create a dockable window pane</li> <li>Programatically add editors to this window pane. (And ensure they're correctly registered within Visual Studio, the running document table, etc.)</li> </ol> <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p> <p>I'm sorry, I should have expanded on my steps. When I said I needed to register with the running document table and Visual Studio, it's because I want to actually edit the original document in my custom editor. Below is a short example of the functionality available in Debugger Canvas that I'm trying to recreate:</p> <p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/aYm8A5E.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://i.imgur.com/aYm8A5E.gif</a> (I can't embed a .gif)</p> <p>Alternatively:</p> <p>If anyone knows where I can find the editor samples included with Visual Studio 2005 such as the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb165316%28v=vs.80%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Basic Editor Sample</a> I'm sure I could figure this stuff out. The MSDN documentation has no code samples regarding these interfaces, which has made my job extremely difficult.</p>
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    1. COThe samples you want come with the Visual Studios SDK. Since they don't show any updadted versions, I would expect that the latest version would have the same samples
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    2. COThere's no Visual Studio 2012 SDK samples, but there are 2010 samples. I've looked through them all and none of them are the ones mentioned in the VS 2005 links I provided. I believe the 2010 samples are meant to highlight the WPF interfaces they added for that version of Visual Studio.
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