/// <summary>
/// This starts an instance of Visual Studio and get its DTE object.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>DTE of the started instance.</returns>
public static DTE2 StartVisualStudioInstance()
{
// Set up filter to handle threading events and automatically retry calls
// to dte which fail because dte is busy.
ComMessageFilter.Register();
Type visualStudioType;
if (IsVS2012())
{
visualStudioType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.11.0");
}
else
{
visualStudioType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.10.0");
}
DTE2 visualStudio = Activator.CreateInstance(visualStudioType) as DTE2;
if (visualStudio == null)
{
throw new Exception("Visual Studio failed to start");
}
visualStudio.MainWindow.Visible = true;
return(visualStudio);
}
/// <summary>
/// This properly cleans up after StartVisualStudioInstance().
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dte">Dte instance returned by StartVisualStudioInstance().</param>
public static void CleanUpVisualStudioInstance(DTE2 dte)
{
if (dte != null)
{
if (dte.Solution != null)
{
dte.Solution.Close();
}
dte.Quit();
}
// Stop the message filter.
ComMessageFilter.Revoke();
}