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_DTE Interface

Visual Studio 2005

The top-level object in the Visual Studio automation object model. Refer to _DTE for this functionality. Do not instantiate from this class.

Namespace: EnvDTE
Assembly: EnvDTE (in envdte.dll)

Syntax

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[GuidAttribute("04A72314-32E9-48E2-9B87-A63603454F3E")] 
public interface _DTE

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/** @attribute GuidAttribute("04A72314-32E9-48E2-9B87-A63603454F3E") */ 
public interface _DTE

JScript

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GuidAttribute("04A72314-32E9-48E2-9B87-A63603454F3E") 
public interface _DTE

Remarks

The _DTE object is provided by the OnConnection method that you implement when you create an add-in. The _DTE object is the Application object in Visual Basic.

To access project-specific properties such as VBProjects or CSharpProjects, use the syntax DTE.GetObject("VBProjects").

For details about referencing the EnvDTE namespace and the _DTE object, see How to: Get References to the DTE and DTE2 Objects.

Example

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Sub DTEExample()
  Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
  Dim objEP As EditPoint
  
  'Create a new text document.
  DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")
  'Get a handle to the new document.
  Set objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
  Set objEP = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
  'Create an EditPoint and add some text.
  objEP.Insert "A test sentence."
End Sub

Reference

_DTE Members
EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

Referencing the DTE Object

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