Hi I am having a problem, with a custom build task inside of a Visual Studio Extension. I need to identify projects of my custom project type. I can do this fine if they are on the root of the solution, but the problem occurs when it is inside of a solution folder. I can get the solution folder as a EnvDTE.Project, but am not sure how to get projects from within that folder.
I thought I would be able to get it from the projects Collection property but that is null.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
if (Scope == EnvDTE.vsBuildScope.vsBuildScopeSolution)
{
DTE2 dte2 = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE)) as DTE2;
var sol = dte2.Solution;
EnvDTE.DTE t = dte2.DTE;
var x = t.Solution.Projects;
foreach(var proj in x)
{
try
{
var project = proj as EnvDTE.Project;
var guid = GetProjectTypeGuids(project);
if (guid.Contains("FOLDERGUID"))
{
//here is where I would get the project from the folder
}
I managed to resolve this with a bit more research and some trial and error. In case anybody else comes up with this problem, I changed the main code to
if (Scope == EnvDTE.vsBuildScope.vsBuildScopeSolution)
{
errorListProvider.Tasks.Clear();
DTE2 dte2 = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(DTE)) as DTE2;
var sol = dte2.Solution;
var projs = sol.Projects;
foreach(var proj in sol)
{
var project = proj as Project;
if (project.Kind == ProjectKinds.vsProjectKindSolutionFolder)
{
var innerProjects = GetSolutionFolderProjects(project);
foreach(var innerProject in innerProjects)
{
//carry out actions here.
}
}
}
}
The code for the GetSolutionFolderForProjects was
private IEnumerable<Project> GetSolutionFolderProjects(Project project)
{
List<Project> projects = new List<Project>();
var y = (project.ProjectItems as ProjectItems).Count;
for(var i = 1; i <= y; i++)
{
var x = project.ProjectItems.Item(i).SubProject;
var subProject = x as Project;
if (subProject != null)
{
//Carried out work and added projects as appropriate
}
}
return projects;
}
Hope this helps somebody else.