Custom Task + Connection Manager With Interaction To Visual Studio

Hi

I am running into issues with custom objects interaction with visual studio 2005.

1. Custom connection manager.
I am setting the name of the connection manager ( to standardize naming convention ) that user created, however when the CM is created, the name displayed in visual studio is still the default name even if the real name is the one i set. I have to do things like, edit it or save package - close - reopen, create another connection, ... etc in order to get it refreshed.

2. Custom Task
I am managing some variables in this custom task so that I will be adding and deleting variables in the package.
The challenge i am running into is, when I added 2 variables for example, even though the variables are successfully added to package, the Variable Window in visual studio designer will not reflect the new variables. I have to save package, close, and re-open in order for the variables to show up.

So this brings to my question - is there any way to tell Visual Studio programmatically to refresh the contents of these 2 sections, 1 is the Variable Window and the other is the panel containing the list of connection managers.

I have been searching around and found some clue about visual studio SDK but I still cannot find an exact way of doing it. Visual Studio SDK example tells you how you can access the Variable window as

framesList = new List<IVsWindowFrame>();

toolWindowNames = new List<string>();

// Get the UI Shell service

IVsUIShell uiShell = (IVsUIShell)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SVsUIShell));

// Get the tool windows enumerator

IEnumWindowFrames windowEnumerator;

ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(uiShell.GetToolWindowEnum(out windowEnumerator));



IVsWindowFrame[] frame = new IVsWindowFrame[1];

uint fetched = 0;

int hr = VsConstants.S_OK;

// Note that we get S_FALSE when there is no more item, so only loop while we are getting S_OK

while (hr == VsConstants.S_OK)

{

// For each tool window, add it to the list

hr = windowEnumerator.Next(1, frame, out fetched);

ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(hr);

if (fetched == 1)

{

// We successfully retrieved a window frame, update our lists

string caption = (string)GetProperty(frame[0], (int)__VSFPROPID.VSFPROPID_Caption);

toolWindowNames.Add(caption);

framesList.Add(frame[0]);



}

}

But i looked up the methods for IVsWindowFrame and it does not have anything to refresh the contents of the frame.

I thought about firing events but cannot find which one to fire.

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.

Terry