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John B
John B

Reputation: 20350

Access List of Available Types from a Visual Studio Add In?

Is there a way to access the types (Classes, Interfaces, etc., and their meta data) that are available inside the loaded projects within a solution in Visual Studio?

To be more specific, I'm attempting to develop a simple Visual Studio Add In to provide "Go To Implementation" functionality:

https://bitbucket.org/jbubriski/go-to-implementation/

I realize that this exists in other productivity Add Ins/Extensions, but I'm making a bare bones one so I don't have to deal with slow downs, hangs, and crashes from other added "features".

If you look at the source, I'm able to get the currently selected text using a very basic and fragile method. Given the selection, I basically assume that it is an interface, strip off the 'I', and do a Solution-wide search for ProjectItems where the file name ends in "\TypeName.cs".

Is there some internal list of types that Visual Studio maintains for intellisense that I have access to? It would be nice to say:

var vsType = VS.GetLocalType("TypeName")

Then access

vsType.FileName

One step further would be

foreach(var vsType in VS.GetlocalTypes())
{
    if(vsType.Implements.Contains("IInterfaceName"))
    {
        // Found something that implements my interface!
    }
}

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 411

Answers (2)

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161773

More details later, if I get time, but see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.design.ityperesolutionservice.aspx.

Upvotes: 1

Alexander Mavrinsky
Alexander Mavrinsky

Reputation: 465

Not sure about native VS addons implementation, but if you are using DevExpress.CodeRush, goto definition functionality should be based on current position in source file, and do something like this to retrieve reference to declaring type: ((TypeReferenceExpression)CodeRush.Source.Active).GetDeclaringType()

P.S. I understand that I didn't answer on yor question, but hope this will give you a direction to search a solution

Upvotes: 1

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