How to force Visual Studio to update the UI?

Question

I'm working on this Visual Studio extension, in the code below when the ToggleEnabled() function is called, it triggers OnToggleEnabled -> OnToggleEnabledHandler.

At private void OnToggleEnabledHandler() these attempts are not working, and the UI is not being updated.

With this, I'm trying to make the LayoutChangedHandler function get called.

How I could "force" Visual Studio to update its UI?

-Walkthrough-

A shortcut sent to VS triggers the Execute(AsyncPackage package) function, and it triggers the ToggleEnabled() function:

{
    private readonly IAdornmentLayer _layer;
    private readonly IWpfTextView _view;
    private readonly VariableExpander _variableExpander;
    private string _contentTypeName;

    public static bool Enabled { get; set; }
    public static event Action OnToggleEnabled;

    static ImageAdornmentManager()
    {
        Enabled = true;
    }

    public static void ToggleEnabled()
    {
        ThreadHelper.ThrowIfNotOnUIThread();

        Enabled = !Enabled;
        UIMessage.Show($"Comment: {Enabled}. Scroll editor window to update.");
        OnToggleEnabled?.Invoke();
    }

    public ImageAdornmentManager(IWpfTextView view)
    {
        _view = view;
        _layer = view.GetAdornmentLayer("ImageCommentLayer");
        _view.LayoutChanged += LayoutChangedHandler;
        _contentTypeName = view.TextBuffer.ContentType.TypeName;
        _view.TextBuffer.ContentTypeChanged += contentTypeChangedHandler;

        OnToggleEnabled += OnToggleEnabledHandler;
    }

        
    private void OnToggleEnabledHandler()
    {
        Console.Write("OnToggleEnabledHandler");
        _view.VisualElement.InvalidateMeasure();
        _view.VisualElement.InvalidateArrange();
        _view.VisualElement.InvalidateVisual();
        _view.LayoutChanged += (sender, e) => { };
    }
}

I have posted this same question on StackOverflow.

Answer 1

Does someone else know how to trigger an update in the UI?

Answer 2

I see it is an old post, but for those that are looking for a way to force an update in the UI. The only way I could find, was to measure it, it triggers a layout refresh:

await ThreadHelper.JoinableTaskFactory.SwitchToMainThreadAsync(Package.DisposalToken);

WpfTextView.VisualElement.Measure(WpfTextView.VisualElement.RenderSize);

var size = WpfTextView.VisualElement.DesiredSize;