In VisualStudio DTE, how to get the contents of the ActiveDocument?

c#, envdte, visual-studio

Solution

This is working for me

protected DTE2 dte;
dte2 = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));

public string GetCurrentTextFile(){

  TextDocument doc = (TextDocument)(dte.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument"));
  var p = doc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint();
  string s = p.GetText(doc.EndPoint);

  return s;            
}

Problem

I'm scripting inside VisualStudio and am trying to get the contents of the currently ActiveDocument. This is my current solution: ``` var visualStudio = new API_VisualStudio_2010(); var vsDTE = visualStudio.VsAddIn.VS_Dte; var document = (Document)vsDTE.ActiveDocument; var textDocument = (TextDocument)document.Object("TextDocument"); var editPoint = textDocument.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint(); var text = editPoint.GetText(textDocument.EndPoint.CreateEditPoint()); panel.clear().add_SourceCodeViewer() .set_Text(text, document.FullName.extension()); ``` Is this the best way? I got the solution from: Because ActiveDocument.Text() Would Be Too Easy...

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