Howto determine the startup form of a project?

Howto determine the startup form of a project?

• Togo

  This is a little outside areas with which I'm familiar, but WindowsFormsApplicationBase.MainForm Property looks promising. It's in the Midrosoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices namespace of the .NET Framework.
  

• dpollo

  You just click on 'Project' in the menu and then select the bottom menu option.
  It should be 'projectname Properties'.
  Then under 'Common Properties' select 'General' in the dialog box that pops up.
  The fourth item under the 'Application' group tells you the startup object of your
  project.
  
  If you're after how to find this during run-time I don't know.
  
  
  

• Raymundo Chapa94595

  Sorry, I guess I wasnt clear on this. I'm trying to do this in code using the DTE to examine the Project and ProjectItem classes representing the project loaded into visual studio 2005.
  
  :)
  
  Bill
  

• IraD

  Bill,
  
  Check Project's Properties collection. If I recall one of the properties exposes startup form. FYI, collection items can be retrieved by name.
  
  

• Crumbs

  Would this work

  Sub Macro2()

  Dim objProject As Project = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1)

  For Each objPI As ProjectItem In objProject.ProjectItems

  If objPI.Name = "My Project" Then

  For Each objPI2 As ProjectItem In objPI.ProjectItems

  If objPI2.Name.ToLower = "application.myapp" Then

  Dim objXDoc As New XmlDocument

  objXDoc.Load(objPI2.FileNames(0))

  MsgBox(objXDoc.GetElementsByTagName("MainForm").Item(0).InnerText)

  End If

  Next

  End If

  Next

  End Sub

  
  
  

• Simn

  This is way too difficult and not very reliable . In VS2003, I can always use the startupObject property but now VB.Net changes this and the worse thing is this property is dynamic on the Application Project Designer (determined by the Enabled application framework checkbox). 
  
  I was looking at the VBProjectProperties3 which has a MyApplication property but it is of type object so I can't tell if it is useful or not. Any ideas Is there any better way to look up the start up form/object
  
  

• Trevor L.

  There is a "StartupObject" property, but its value is useless. Its value is "TestRefresh.My.MyApplication" and the generated code-behind for the project in the Application.Designer.VB file has
  
  

  <Global.System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()>
  Protected Overrides Sub OnCreateMainForm()
  Me.MainForm = Global.TestRefresh.Form1
  End Sub
  
  which is where the form is actually created.
   
  Ive come to the conclusion that I will have to use the CodeModel to get into this function and parse it out, but the fact remains that this is annoying at best and impossible for people without a good deal of experience.
  

  
  
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