Determining the Names of Property Items in Options Pages
One of the first challenges encountered when programming against the DTE Properties collection is determining the exact names to use in the DTE.Properties call. Each setting has a specific name that is used to access its value. The name is derived from the title displayed in the Tools Options page. For example, DTE.Properties("FontsAndColors", "TextEditor") is used to access the settings for the Fonts and Colors, Environment, Options Dialog Box.
These names are stored in the Windows registry hive, HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AutomationProperties.
If a particular setting does not appear in the following list, then its values cannot be programmatically accessed by using Visual Studio automation. This list of properties is not affected by choosing different settings, because settings only filter the nodes you see on the Tools Options dialog box. Settings do not remove nodes.
Property Item Names
Following is a complete list of the available option pages or setting names:
Environment
AddinMacrosSecurity
Documents
FindAndReplace
General
Help
Import and Export Settings
International
Keyboard
ProjectsAndSolution
Startup
TaskList
WebBrowser
FontsAndColors
Printer
TextEditor
Microsoft Office Keyboard Settings
Microsoft Office Excel Keyboard
Microsoft Office Word Keyboard
Projects
VBDefaults
VCDirectories
VCGeneral
Test Tools
Test Execution
Test Project
Text Editor
AllLanguages
Basic
Basic-Specific
C/C++
C/C++ - Specific
CSharp
CSharp - Specific
CSS
CSS - Specific
Fonts
General
HTML
HTML Specific
PL/SQL
PlainText
SQL Script
T-SQL
T-SQL7
T-SQL80
Visual JSharp
VJSharp - Specific
XML
XmlEditor
WindowsFormsDesigner
- General
Remember, this list contains only items that can be programmatically accessed in Visual Studio.