WindowState change event in Visual Studio extension

Question

I am looking for an event that will notify me when the main window is minimized and restored in a Visual Studio extension package.

I've looked at the DTE2.Events, as well as the IVsWindowFrame and IVsWindowFrameNotify interfaces but don't see anything that will do what I need.

Answer 1

Get the HWND of the VS window: HWnd of Visual Studio 2010

Capture the messages being sent to Visual Studio: C# - Capturing Windows Messages from a specific application

Then wait for a WM_SIZE message: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632646%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

Answer 2

The EnvDTE80.DTE2.Events.WindowEvents.WindowMoved event fires on main window minimize and restore.