Clear Error List window Pragmatically for Visual Studio

Question

I am writing my custom parser and after validation i am adding information to Error list of Visual studio using "error task" and "error service Provider". It's adding my custom error to error list window. but when i recompile again it adds up the error to the window. if it was 2 before and now is 3 the it shows ac-cumulatively. Is there any way that i can clear those error items from error list window before i add another.

 _errorListProvider.Tasks.Add(new ErrorTask
            {
                Category = TaskCategory.User,
                ErrorCategory = category,
                HelpKeyword = "Automation Id Help text",
                Line = 12,
                Column = 12,
                Text = message
            });

i would appreciate any help on this.

Answer 1

_errorListProvider.Tasks.Clear()

But it won't work if you are crating provider every time you want to add error. So, you need to have it somewhere as variable you can access when you need.