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)

Syntax

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.
Example

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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