IVsUIShell.ShowContextMenu Method

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07/12/2014

Shows the context menu for the active menu object.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Function ShowContextMenu ( _
    dwCompRole As UInteger, _
    ByRef rclsidActive As Guid, _
    nMenuId As Integer, _
    pos As POINTS(), _
    pCmdTrgtActive As IOleCommandTarget _
) As Integer

int ShowContextMenu(
    uint dwCompRole,
    ref Guid rclsidActive,
    int nMenuId,
    POINTS[] pos,
    IOleCommandTarget pCmdTrgtActive
)

int ShowContextMenu(
    [InAttribute] unsigned int dwCompRole, 
    [InAttribute] Guid% rclsidActive, 
    [InAttribute] int nMenuId, 
    [InAttribute] array<POINTS>^ pos, 
    [InAttribute] IOleCommandTarget^ pCmdTrgtActive
)

abstract ShowContextMenu : 
        dwCompRole:uint32 * 
        rclsidActive:Guid byref * 
        nMenuId:int * 
        pos:POINTS[] * 
        pCmdTrgtActive:IOleCommandTarget -> int

function ShowContextMenu(
    dwCompRole : uint, 
    rclsidActive : Guid, 
    nMenuId : int, 
    pos : POINTS[], 
    pCmdTrgtActive : IOleCommandTarget
) : int

Parameters

dwCompRole
Type: System.UInt32

[in] Do not use.

rclsidActive
Type: System.Guid%

[in] Specifies the GUID of the context menu in the .ctc file.

nMenuId
Type: System.Int32

[in] Identifier of the context menu to show from the .ctc file.

pos
Type: array<Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.POINTS[]

[in] Specifies the position to place the context menu.

pCmdTrgtActive
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IOleCommandTarget

[in] Pointer to the IOleCommandTarget interface of the active menu object. Can be nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Return Value

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

Remarks

COM Signature

From vsshell.idl:

HRESULT IVsUIShell::ShowContextMenu(
   [in] DWORD dwCompRole,
   [in] REFCLSID rclsidActive,
   [in] LONG nMenuId,
   [in] REFPOINTS pos,
   [in] IOleCommandTarget *pCmdTrgtActive
);

All commands are routed first to the IOleCommandTarget passed in pCmdTrgtActive.

.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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