_DTE Members
Visual Studio 2008
The top-level object in the Visual Studio automation object model. Refer to _DTE for this functionality. Do not instantiate from this class.
The _DTE type exposes the following members.
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ExecuteCommand | Executes the specified command. |
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GetObject | Gets an interface or object that is late-bound to the DTE object and can be accessed by name at run time. |
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LaunchWizard | Runs a wizard with the supplied parameters. |
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OpenFile | Infrastructure. Microsoft Internal Use Only. |
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Quit | Closes the environment. |
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SatelliteDllPath | Returns the computed path to the satellite DLL when given the installation directory for an Add-in or wizard and the file name of the DLL containing localized resources. |
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ActiveDocument | Gets the active document. |
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ActiveSolutionProjects | Gets an array of currently selected projects. |
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ActiveWindow | Returns the currently active window, or the top-most window if no others are active. |
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AddIns | Gets the AddIns collection, which contains all currently available Add-ins. |
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Application | Infrastructure. Microsoft Internal Use Only. |
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CommandBars | Gets a reference to the development environment's CommandBars object. |
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CommandLineArguments | Gets a string representing the command line arguments. |
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Commands | Returns the Commands collection. |
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ContextAttributes | Gets a ContextAttributes collection which allows automation clients to add new attributes to the current selected items in the Dynamic Help window and provide contextual help for the additional attributes. |
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Debugger | Gets the debugger objects. |
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DisplayMode | Gets the display mode, either MDI or Tabbed Documents. |
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Documents | Gets the collection of open documents in the development environment. |
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DTE | Gets the top-level extensibility object. |
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Edition | Gets a description of the edition of the environment. |
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Events | Gets a reference to the Events object. |
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FileName | Infrastructure. Microsoft Internal Use Only. |
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Find | Gets the Find object that represents global text find operations. |
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FullName | Gets the full path and name of the object's file. |
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Globals | Gets the Globals object that contains Add-in values that may be saved in the solution (.sln) file, the project file, or in the user's profile data. |
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IsOpenFile | Infrastructure. Microsoft Internal Use Only. |
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ItemOperations | Gets the ItemOperations object. |
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LocaleID | Gets the ID of the locale in which the development environment is running. |
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Macros | Gets the Macros object. |
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MacrosIDE | Gets the root of the Macros IDE's automation model. |
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MainWindow | Gets a Window object representing the main development environment window. |
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Mode | Gets the mode of the development environment, either debug or design. |
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Name | Sets or gets the name of the _DTE object. |
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ObjectExtenders | Gets the ObjectExtenders object. |
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Properties | Returns a Properties collection representing all available categories and subcategories contained in the Options dialog box on the Tools menu. |
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RegistryRoot | Gets a string with the path to the root of the Visual Studio registry settings. |
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SelectedItems | Gets a collection containing the items currently selected in the environment. |
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Solution | Gets the Solution object that represents all open projects in the current instance of the environment and allows access to the build objects. |
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SourceControl | Gets a SourceControl object that allows you to manipulate the source code control state of the file behind the object. |
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StatusBar | Gets the StatusBar object, representing the status bar on the main development environment window. |
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SuppressUI | Gets or sets whether UI should be displayed during the execution of automation code. |
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UndoContext | Gets the global UndoContext object. |
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UserControl | Sets or gets a value indicating whether the environment was launched by a user or by automation. |
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Version | Gets the host application's version number. |
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WindowConfigurations | Gets the WindowConfigurations collection, representing all available window configurations. |
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Windows | Gets a Windows collection containing the windows that display in the object. |