Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Text Windows and Window Panes

Text windows have their own specific object abstraction in addition to the generic Window object: The TextWindow object is used to represent text editor windows. To obtain a reference to a window’s TextWindow object, you retrieve the Window object’s value and assign it into a TextWindow type:

Dim textWindow As TextWindowtextWindow = DTE.ActiveWindow.Object

The TextWindow object doesn’t provide much functionality over and above the functionality found in the Window type; its real value is the access it provides to window panes.

Text editor windows in Visual Studio can be split into two panes; with a text editor open, simply select Split from the Window menu to create a new pane within the window. The TextWindow.ActivePane ...