VsCatalogProvider Class

Provides access to named MEF catalogs. The catalogs are referred by name that usually follows the namespace naming convention, for example "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextEditor". The catalogs are automatically cached. In the case of any error related to cache files management the class falls back to no-cache mode.

The class is thread safe.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Object
  Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting.VsCatalogProvider

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class VsCatalogProvider

public sealed class VsCatalogProvider

public ref class VsCatalogProvider sealed

[<Sealed>]
type VsCatalogProvider =  class end

public final class VsCatalogProvider

The VsCatalogProvider type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	VsCatalogProvider	Constructor. Usually there will be only one instance of this class created for an appdomain.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	IsCacheDirty	The property is true if there is at least one catalog with not-up-to-date cache.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetCachedCatalog	Gets the cached MEF catalog by its name. The catalog is built and cached in a separate appdomain then loads in the cached catalog in the current appdomain.
	GetCatalog	Provides access to a MEF catalog by its name. If no contributors found for a requested catalog an empty one is returned.
	GetHashCode	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetScopedCachedCatalog	Gets the cached scoped catalog for the catalog as defined by the ICompositionScopeCreator returned by the VsComponentModelHost.
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	IsolatedUpdateCache
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	TryGetCatalog	Attempts to retrieve catalog of given name from catalogs currently loaded by the catalog provider.
	UpdateCache	Persists caches to disk for the catalog which caches are not up-to-date (or have never been cached).

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensibilityHosting Namespace