public static void ShowIDE( string solutionFile )
{
EnvDTE.DTE ide = Msdev.GetIDEInstance( solutionFile );
if (ide != null)
{
ShowIDE( ide );
}
else
{
// To create a new instance of the IDE, opened to the selected solution we
// could try:
//
// Type dteType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.7.1");
// EnvDTE.DTE dte = Activator.CreateInstance(dteType) as EnvDTE.DTE;
// dte.MainWindow.WindowState = EnvDTE.vsWindowState.vsWindowStateMaximize;
// dte.MainWindow.Visible = true;
// dte.Solution.Open( solutionFile.Filename );
//
// This works but the new devenv.exe process does not exit when you close the
// IDE. You could then just reattach as described and the closed IDE would
// quickly redisplay (possibly useful as a feature).
//
// Instead we lookup the path to the IDE executable in the registry and
// just start another process.
RegistryKey devKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\7.1\\Setup\\VS");
string idePath = (string) devKey.GetValue( "EnvironmentPath" );
System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput =false;
p.StartInfo.Arguments = solutionFile;
p.StartInfo.FileName = idePath;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
p.Start();
}
}
private void ThreadMain()
{
// Take a snapshot of the currently running instances of Visual Studio
// We'll also separately keep track of the solution files that each
// instance has open at this time. We'll use it to detect when an
// IDE has loaded or unloaded a solution.
Dictionary<string, _DTE> snapshotInstances = Msdev.GetIDEInstances(m_openSolutionsOnly);
Hashtable snapshotSolutions = new Hashtable();
foreach( string snapshotKey in snapshotInstances.Keys )
{
string solutionFile = String.Empty;
try
{
EnvDTE.DTE ide = (EnvDTE.DTE) snapshotInstances[ snapshotKey ];
solutionFile = ide.Solution.FullName;
}
catch{}
snapshotSolutions[ snapshotKey ] = solutionFile;
}
// We'll just keep looping in this thread, periodically checking the
// currently running list of IDE's. If there is any change we'll
// raise a Changed event.
while (m_isRunning)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep( m_period );
if (Changed != null)
{
Dictionary<string, _DTE> currentInstances = Msdev.GetIDEInstances(m_openSolutionsOnly);
bool changed = Msdev.CompareInstances( snapshotInstances, currentInstances );
if (changed)
{
m_invokeObject.BeginInvoke( Changed, null);
snapshotInstances = currentInstances;
}
else
{
foreach ( string currentKey in currentInstances.Keys )
{
string prevSolutionFile = (string) snapshotSolutions[ currentKey ];
string currentSolutionFile = String.Empty;
try
{
EnvDTE.DTE ide = (EnvDTE.DTE) currentInstances[ currentKey ];
currentSolutionFile = ide.Solution.FullName;
}
catch {}
if (prevSolutionFile != currentSolutionFile)
{
m_invokeObject.BeginInvoke( Changed, null );
snapshotInstances = currentInstances;
snapshotSolutions[ currentKey ] = currentSolutionFile;
break;
}
}
}
}
}
}
