At times you may need to verify that the VB IDE is the current process. This is necessary, for example, when you are notified that the user has presses a given hotkey and you want to ensure that this hotkey should be processed by your addin (if the VB IDE is the active process) or just ignored. Here’s a simple routine that does the job:’ return True if the VBIDE is the foreground process” This code only works inside a VB add-in and’ assumes that the VBInstance global variable holds’ a reference to the VBE root objectFunction VisualBasicIsActiveProcess() As Boolean Dim vbProcessID As Long Dim currProcessID As Long ‘ get ProcessID of Visual Basic GetWindowThreadProcessId VBInstance.MainWindow.hwnd, vbProcessID ‘ get processID of active Window GetWindowThreadProcessId GetForegroundWindow(), currProcessID ‘ return True if they match VisualBasicIsActiveProcess = (vbProcessID = currProcessID) End Function