| Author: |
Carlos J. Quintero (Microsoft MVP) |
Applies to: |
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 |
| Date: |
August 2012 |
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 |
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Introduction
A CommandBarPopup has a Caption property and it has a CommandBar property, which
returns the internal CommandBar associated to the CommandBarPopup. In turn, this
CommandBar object has a Name property. These two properties
(CommandBarPopup.Caption and CommandBarPopup.CommandBar.Name) are independent
and serve different purposes: the Caption is shown in the user interface and the
Name is used to identify the CommandBar. However, in VS 2010 and 2012 changing
the Caption property changes the CommandBar.Name property and viceversa. This
didn't happen in Visual Studio 2005/2008; it is a bug introduced when VS 2010
migrated from Office-based commandbars to WPF-based commandbars.
More information
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Create a VB.NET add-in with the code below.
- The add-in creates a CommandbarPopup and shows the CommandbarPopup.Caption and
CommandbarPopup.CommandBar.Name values after creating it, after changing the
CommandbarPopup.Caption property and after changing the
CommandbarPopup.CommandBar.Name values.
| Language: VB.NET |  Copy Code (IE only) |
Imports System
Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommandBars
Imports Extensibility
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Public Class Connect
Implements IDTExtensibility2
Private _applicationObject As DTE2
Private _addInInstance As AddIn
Private _commandBarPopup1 As CommandBarPopup
Public Sub OnConnection(ByVal application As Object, ByVal connectMode As ext_ConnectMode, ByVal addInInst As Object, _
ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection
_applicationObject = CType(application, DTE2)
_addInInstance = CType(addInInst, AddIn)
Select Case connectMode
Case ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_Startup
' OnStartupComplete will be called
Case ext_ConnectMode.ext_cm_AfterStartup
InitializeAddIn()
End Select
End Sub
Public Sub OnDisconnection(ByVal disconnectMode As ext_DisconnectMode, ByRef custom As Array) _
Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnDisconnection
If _commandBarPopup1 IsNot Nothing Then
_commandBarPopup1.Delete()
End If
End Sub
Public Sub OnAddInsUpdate(ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnAddInsUpdate
End Sub
Public Sub OnStartupComplete(ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnStartupComplete
InitializeAddIn()
End Sub
Public Sub OnBeginShutdown(ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnBeginShutdown
End Sub
Private Sub InitializeAddIn()
Dim commandBars As CommandBars
Dim standardCommandBar As CommandBar
commandBars = CType(_applicationObject.CommandBars, CommandBars)
standardCommandBar = commandBars.Item("Standard")
_commandBarPopup1 = CType(standardCommandBar.Controls.Add(MsoControlType.msoControlPopup), CommandBarPopup)
MessageBox.Show("Commandbar name:" & _commandBarPopup1.CommandBar.Name & vbCrLf & "Caption: " & _commandBarPopup1.Caption)
_commandBarPopup1.Caption = "My popup caption"
MessageBox.Show("Commandbar name:" & _commandBarPopup1.CommandBar.Name & vbCrLf & "Caption: " & _commandBarPopup1.Caption)
_commandBarPopup1.CommandBar.Name = "MyPopupName"
MessageBox.Show("Commandbar name:" & _commandBarPopup1.CommandBar.Name & vbCrLf & "Caption: " & _commandBarPopup1.Caption)
End Sub
End Class
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