How to add contextMenu for toolWindow in vspackage

Question

I want to add contextMenu in toolWindow ,but it's not mentioned in visual studio SDK.Can I add it in commandTable?

Answer 1

IDM_VS_CTXT_EZTOOLWINTAB and IDM_VS_CTXT_DOCKEDWINDOW are IDs of Window Frame/Tab context menu for ToolWindow.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CommandTable xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005-10-18/CommandTable" 
              xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

    <Extern href="stdidcmd.h"/>
    <Extern href="vsshlids.h"/>

    <Commands package="guidVSIXProjectPackage">

        <Menus >
            <Menu guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDM_ContentContext" type="Context" >
                <Strings>
                    <ButtonText>Text</ButtonText>
                    <CommandName>Name</CommandName>
                </Strings>
            </Menu>
        </Menus>
        
        <Groups>
            <Group guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_1" priority="0x0001">
                <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_CTXT_EZTOOLWINTAB"/>
            </Group>
            <Group guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_2" priority="0x0001">
                <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDM_VS_CTXT_DOCKEDWINDOW"/>
            </Group>
            <Group guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_3" priority="0x0001">
                <Parent guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDM_ContentContext"/>
            </Group>
        </Groups>
        
        <Buttons>
            <Button guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="ID_CMD_ShowToolWindow" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
                <Parent guid="guidSHLMainMenu" id="IDG_VS_WNDO_OTRWNDWS1"/>
                <Strings>
                    <ButtonText>Show Tool Window1</ButtonText>
                </Strings>
            </Button>

            <Button guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_1" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
                <Parent guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_1"/>
                <CommandFlag>DefaultDisabled</CommandFlag>
                <Strings>
                    <ButtonText>🆗 EZTOOLWINTAB</ButtonText>
                </Strings>
            </Button>
            <Button guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_2" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
                <Parent guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_2"/>
                <CommandFlag>DefaultDisabled</CommandFlag>
                <Strings>
                    <ButtonText>🆗 DOCKEDWINDOW</ButtonText>
                </Strings>
            </Button>
            <Button guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_3" priority="0x0100" type="Button">
                <Parent guid="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" id="IDG_3"/>
                <CommandFlag>DefaultDisabled</CommandFlag>
                <Strings>
                    <ButtonText>🆗 Custom ContextMenu</ButtonText>
                </Strings>
            </Button>
        </Buttons>
    </Commands>
    
    <Symbols>
        <GuidSymbol name="guidVSIXProjectPackage" value="{9F126C84-CA73-4ECC-AB8E-54A3D5286DE4}" /> <!-- change your GUID -->

        <GuidSymbol name="guidVSIXProjectPackageCmdSet" value="{C085B947-854B-47DB-9178-3C4A987DD6ED}">  <!-- change your GUID -->
            <IDSymbol name="IDM_ContentContext" value="0x0100"/>
            
            <IDSymbol name="IDG_1" value="0x0201"/>
            <IDSymbol name="IDG_2" value="0x0202"/>
            <IDSymbol name="IDG_3" value="0x0203"/>
            <IDSymbol name="IDG_4" value="0x0204"/>

            <IDSymbol name="ID_CMD_ShowToolWindow" value="0x0300" />
            <IDSymbol name="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_1" value="0x0301" />
            <IDSymbol name="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_2" value="0x0302" />
            <IDSymbol name="ID_CMD_ContextMenu_3" value="0x0303" />
        </GuidSymbol>
    </Symbols>
</CommandTable>

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