Document Windows and Editors

Document windows host text editors in the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Document windows can host either standard or custom editors. For more information, see Types of Editors.

In This Section

• Document Data and Document View Objects
  Explains document data and document views and how an editor them to support multiple views.

• Supporting Multiple Document Views
  Describes how to provide more than one view of a document data object by creating separate document data and document view objects for an editor.

• Interaction Between Logical Views and Physical Views
  Describes the differences between logical and physical views and how each corresponds to the types of windows that an editor factory can create.

• How to: Attach Views to Document Data Objects
  Explains how to attach a document view to a document data object.

Related Sections

• Running Document Table
  Explains how the running document table (RDT) tracks open documents.

• Types of Editors
  Explains the types of editors that the Visual Studio IDE supports.

• Editors
  Introduces the different types of editors Visual Studio provides and explains how you can create custom editors.