Displaying information about Visual Studio windows

There's a Show Active Window Properties command in Codist which helps Visual Studio extension developers exploring underlying data about windows in the development environment.

To activate the command, open the Options dialog, select the Add "Show Active Window Properties" command to File Menu check box in the Extension Development page, as the following screenshot shows, then close the Options dialog.

After that, you can see the Show Active Window Properties command in the File menu.

To display the information about a window in Visual Studio, click that window, then execute the aforementioned command.

For instance, if you want to examine the information about the code document, open a code file and put the keyboard focus on it, then click on the File menu and execute the Show Active Window Properties command.

A window will pop up displaying the information about the code window.

Have fun digging around your Visual Studio.