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Visual Studio Automation and Extensibility Reference
Find.Action Property

Gets or sets how to find, such as find next match, find all, replace and find, and so forth.

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

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Property Action As vsFindAction
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As Find
Dim value As vsFindAction

value = instance.Action

instance.Action = value
C#
vsFindAction Action { get; set; }
C++
property vsFindAction Action {
    vsFindAction get ();
    void set ([InAttribute] vsFindAction pAction);
}
J#
/** @property */
vsFindAction get_Action ()

/** @property */
void set_Action (/** @attribute InAttribute() */ vsFindAction pAction)
JScript
function get Action () : vsFindAction

function set Action (pAction : vsFindAction)

Property Value

A vsFindAction constant representing the type of find action to take.
Visual Basic
Sub ActionExample()
   Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
   Dim objEditPt As EditPoint
   Dim iCtr As Integer
   Dim objFind As Find

   ' Create a new text file.
   DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")

   ' Get a handle to the new document and create an EditPoint.
   objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
   objEditPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
   objFind = objTextDoc.DTE.Find

   ' Insert ten lines of text.
   For iCtr = 1 To 10
      objEditPt.Insert("This is a test." & Chr(13))
   Next iCtr

   ' Set the find options.
   objFind.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll
   objFind.Backwards = False
   objFind.FilesOfType = "*.txt"
   objFind.FindWhat = "test"
   objFind.KeepModifiedDocumentsOpen = True
   objFind.MatchCase = False
   objFind.MatchInHiddenText = False
   objFind.MatchWholeWord = True
   objFind.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral
   objFind.ReplaceWith = "NEW THING"
   objFind.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone
   objFind.SearchPath = "c:\temp"
   objFind.SearchSubfolders = False
   objFind.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument
   ' Perform the Find operation.
   objFind.Execute()
End Sub
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