visibilityconstraints-element.md

title	VisibilityConstraints Element
description	The VisibilityConstraints element determines the static visibility of groups of commands and toolbars.
ms.date	11/04/2016
ms.topic	reference
f1_keywords	VisibilityConstraints
helpviewer_keywords	VSCT XML schema elements, VisibilityConstraints VisibilityConstraints element (VSCT XML schema)
author	tinaschrepfer
ms.author	tinali
ms.subservice	extensibility-integration

VisibilityConstraints element

The VisibilityConstraints element determines the static visibility of groups of commands and toolbars. The visibility is first controlled by the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) without loading the VSPackage.

Syntax

<VisibilityConstraints>
  <VisibilityItem />
  <VisibilityItem />
</VisibilityConstraints>

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
Condition	Optional. See Conditional attributes.

Child elements

Element	Description
VisibilityItem element	Determines the static visibility of commands and toolbars.
VisibilityConstraints	Determines the static visibility of groups of commands and toolbars.

Parent elements

Element	Description
CommandTable element	Defines all the elements that represent the commands (for example, menu items, menus, toolbars, and combo boxes) that a VSPackage provides to the IDE.

Example

<VisibilityConstraints>
  <VisibilityItem guid="cmdSetGuidMyProductCommands"     id="cmdidAddWidget"
    context="guidNotViewSourceMode"/>
</VisibilityConstraints>

See also

• VisibilityItem element
• Visual Studio command table (.Vsct) files