I have see (and used) the rather nice interface for working with Projects. It is quite easy using Visual Studio 2005 and C# to open a project file (using VCProject from VCProjectEngineObject) and to get the collection of configurations the project contains. And from the configuration, it is fairly simple to update virtually any setting.< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
But what I’m wanting to do starts at a level higher. I would like to be able to open a solution file and get the list of Projects it contains. Unfortunately, I’m not finding this documented anywhere (at least not with the other extensibility classes).
Is this possible If not, can you think of any alternatives (short of parsing the solution file myself)
How can I programmatically load a solution?
SSIS_rookie
There is no difference between an Extensibility interface and an Automation interface. DTE is a service, just like anything elsed in the IDE. If you are using a package, just QueryService for SID_SDTE, IID__DTE, which will return a DTE interface. You can then walk through the automation model to load the solution.
Craig
amadas
Using your reply, I was able to get the keywords I needed to do an intelligent Google search. From there, I found the details I was looking for (including your blog).
I do appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Thanks.
Min Wang
You can use the automation model to do this very easily. For example, this macro will load a solution file, then enumerate through the projects loaded in that solution:
Sub EnumProjects()
Dim solut As Solution
Dim proj As Project
solut = DTE.Solution
solut.Open("C:\somepath\solution.sln")
For Each proj In solut.Projects
MsgBox(proj.Name)
Next
End Sub
Craig
Vineet Rao - Microsoft
I was hoping to do this without having to create this as an add-in. Is there a way of doing this using the Extensibility interface rather than the automation interface
It seems rather unbalanced (to me) to have a rich extensibility interface for Projects without having support for Solutions.