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WindowState change event in Visual Studio extension

I am looking for an event that will notify me when the main window is minimized and restored in a Visual Studio extension package.

I've looked at the DTE2.Events, as well as the IVsWindowFrame and IVsWindowFrameNotify interfaces but don't see anything that will do what I need.

Solution

  • Get the HWND of the VS window: HWnd of Visual Studio 2010

    Capture the messages being sent to Visual Studio: C# - Capturing Windows Messages from a specific application

    Then wait for a WM_SIZE message: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632646%28v=VS.85%29.aspx