Find::FilesOfType Property

Visual Studio 2015
 

Gets or sets the file extension for the files to be searched.

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

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property String^ FilesOfType {
	String^ get();
	void set(String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String^

The file extension for the files to be searched.

The FilesOfType argument can be any three-character file extension, such as .bas, .cpp, .txt, and so forth. Also, FilesOfType corresponds to the File types box. It is a semi-colon delimited list of wildcard patterns to search. It works similarly to the MS-DOS dir command. You can, for example, set FilesOfType to MyProg*.cpp. You can only use the wildcard characters on files, however, not directories. So, for example, you could not use Sample*\abc*.cpp.

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Sub FilesOfTypeExample()
   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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