// Code about getting running instances visual studio // was borrowed from // http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/automatingvisualstudio.aspx using System; using System.Collections; using System.Reflection; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes; using Microsoft.CSharp; namespace VSTool { class ViaCOM { public static object GetProperty(object from_obj, string prop_name) { Type objType = from_obj.GetType(); return objType.InvokeMember( prop_name, BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, from_obj, null); } public static object SetProperty(object from_obj, string prop_name, object new_value) { object[] args = { new_value }; Type objType = from_obj.GetType(); return objType.InvokeMember( prop_name, BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.SetProperty, null, from_obj, args); } public static object CallMethod(object from_obj, string method_name, params object[] args) { Type objType = from_obj.GetType(); return objType.InvokeMember( method_name, BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, from_obj, args); } }; /// /// The main entry point class for VSTool. /// class VSToolMain { #region Interop imports [DllImport("ole32.dll")] public static extern int GetRunningObjectTable(int reserved, out IRunningObjectTable prot); [DllImport("ole32.dll")] public static extern int CreateBindCtx(int reserved, out IBindCtx ppbc); #endregion static System.Boolean ignore_case = true; static string solution_name = null; static bool use_new_vs = false; static Hashtable projectDict = new Hashtable(); static string startup_project = null; static string config = null; /// /// The main entry point for the application. /// [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { bool need_save = false; parse_command_line(args); Console.WriteLine("Opening solution: {0}", solution_name); bool found_open_solution = true; Console.WriteLine("Looking for existing VisualStudio instance..."); // Get an instance of the currently running Visual Studio .NET IDE. object dte = null; // dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.7.1"); string full_solution_name = System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(solution_name); if (false == use_new_vs) { dte = GetIDEInstance(full_solution_name); } object sol = null; if (dte == null) { try { Console.WriteLine(" Didn't find open solution, now opening new VisualStudio instance..."); Console.WriteLine(" Reading .sln file version..."); string version = GetSolutionVersion(full_solution_name); Console.WriteLine(" Opening VS version: {0}...", version); string progid = GetVSProgID(version); Type objType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(progid); dte = System.Activator.CreateInstance(objType); Console.WriteLine(" Opening solution..."); sol = ViaCOM.GetProperty(dte, "Solution"); object[] openArgs = {full_solution_name}; ViaCOM.CallMethod(sol, "Open", openArgs); } catch( Exception e ) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); Console.WriteLine("Quitting do error opening: {0}", full_solution_name); return; } found_open_solution = false; } if (sol == null) { sol = ViaCOM.GetProperty(dte, "Solution"); } // Walk through all of the projects in the solution // and list the type of each project. foreach(DictionaryEntry p in projectDict) { string project_name = (string)p.Key; string working_dir = (string)p.Value; if(SetProjectWorkingDir(sol, project_name, working_dir)) { need_save = true; } } if(config != null) { try { object solBuild = ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "SolutionBuild"); object solCfgs = ViaCOM.GetProperty(solBuild, "SolutionConfigurations"); object[] itemArgs = { (object)config }; object solCfg = ViaCOM.CallMethod(solCfgs, "Item", itemArgs); ViaCOM.CallMethod(solCfg, "Activate", null); need_save = true; } catch( Exception e ) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } if (startup_project != null) { try { // You need the 'unique name of the project to set StartupProjects. // find the project by generic name. object prjs = ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "Projects"); object count = ViaCOM.GetProperty(prjs, "Count"); for(int i = 1; i <= (int)count; ++i) { object[] itemArgs = { (object)i }; object prj = ViaCOM.CallMethod(prjs, "Item", itemArgs); object prjName = ViaCOM.GetProperty(prj, "Name"); if (0 == string.Compare((string)prjName, startup_project, ignore_case)) { object solBuild = ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "SolutionBuild"); ViaCOM.SetProperty(solBuild, "StartupProjects", ViaCOM.GetProperty(prj, "UniqueName")); need_save = true; break; } } } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); } } if(need_save) { if(found_open_solution == false) { ViaCOM.CallMethod(sol, "Close", null); } Console.WriteLine("Finished!"); } } public static bool parse_command_line(string[] args) { string options_desc = "--solution : MSVC solution name. (required)\n" + "--use_new_vs : Ignore running versions of visual studio.\n" + "--workingdir : Set working dir of a VC project.\n" + "--config : Set the active config for the solution.\n" + "--startup : Set the startup project for the solution.\n"; try { // Command line param parsing loop. int i = 0; for (; i < args.Length; ++i) { if ("--solution" == args[i]) { if (solution_name != null) { throw new ApplicationException("Found second --solution option"); } solution_name = args[++i]; } else if ("--use_new_vs" == args[i]) { use_new_vs = true; } else if ("--workingdir" == args[i]) { string project_name = args[++i]; string working_dir = args[++i]; projectDict.Add(project_name, working_dir); } else if ("--config" == args[i]) { if (config != null) { throw new ApplicationException("Found second --config option"); } config = args[++i]; } else if ("--startup" == args[i]) { if (startup_project != null) { throw new ApplicationException("Found second --startup option"); } startup_project = args[++i]; } else { throw new ApplicationException("Found unrecognized token on command line: " + args[i]); } } if (solution_name == null) { throw new ApplicationException("The --solution option is required."); } } catch(ApplicationException e) { Console.WriteLine("Oops! " + e.Message); Console.Write("Command line:"); foreach (string arg in args) { Console.Write(" " + arg); } Console.Write("\n\n"); Console.WriteLine("VSTool command line usage"); Console.Write(options_desc); throw e; } return true; } /// /// Get the DTE object for the instance of Visual Studio IDE that has /// the specified solution open. /// /// The absolute filename of the solution /// Corresponding DTE object or null if no such IDE is running public static object GetIDEInstance( string solutionFile ) { Hashtable runningInstances = GetIDEInstances( true ); IDictionaryEnumerator enumerator = runningInstances.GetEnumerator(); while ( enumerator.MoveNext() ) { try { object ide = enumerator.Value; if (ide != null) { object sol = ViaCOM.GetProperty(ide, "Solution"); if (0 == string.Compare((string)ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "FullName"), solutionFile, ignore_case)) { return ide; } } } catch{} } return null; } /// /// Get a table of the currently running instances of the Visual Studio .NET IDE. /// /// Only return instances that have opened a solution /// A hashtable mapping the name of the IDE in the running object table to the corresponding DTE object public static Hashtable GetIDEInstances( bool openSolutionsOnly ) { Hashtable runningIDEInstances = new Hashtable(); Hashtable runningObjects = GetRunningObjectTable(); IDictionaryEnumerator rotEnumerator = runningObjects.GetEnumerator(); while ( rotEnumerator.MoveNext() ) { string candidateName = (string) rotEnumerator.Key; if (!candidateName.StartsWith("!VisualStudio.DTE")) continue; object ide = rotEnumerator.Value; if (ide == null) continue; if (openSolutionsOnly) { try { object sol = ViaCOM.GetProperty(ide, "Solution"); string solutionFile = (string)ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "FullName"); if (solutionFile != String.Empty) { runningIDEInstances[ candidateName ] = ide; } } catch {} } else { runningIDEInstances[ candidateName ] = ide; } } return runningIDEInstances; } /// /// Get a snapshot of the running object table (ROT). /// /// A hashtable mapping the name of the object in the ROT to the corresponding object [STAThread] public static Hashtable GetRunningObjectTable() { Hashtable result = new Hashtable(); int numFetched = 0; IRunningObjectTable runningObjectTable; IEnumMoniker monikerEnumerator; IMoniker[] monikers = new IMoniker[1]; GetRunningObjectTable(0, out runningObjectTable); runningObjectTable.EnumRunning(out monikerEnumerator); monikerEnumerator.Reset(); while (monikerEnumerator.Next(1, monikers, new IntPtr(numFetched)) == 0) { IBindCtx ctx; CreateBindCtx(0, out ctx); string runningObjectName; monikers[0].GetDisplayName(ctx, null, out runningObjectName); object runningObjectVal; runningObjectTable.GetObject( monikers[0], out runningObjectVal); result[ runningObjectName ] = runningObjectVal; } return result; } public static string GetSolutionVersion(string solutionFullFileName) { string version; System.IO.StreamReader solutionStreamReader = null; string firstLine; string format; try { solutionStreamReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(solutionFullFileName); do { firstLine = solutionStreamReader.ReadLine(); } while (firstLine == ""); format = firstLine.Substring(firstLine.LastIndexOf(" ")).Trim(); switch(format) { case "7.00": version = "VC70"; break; case "8.00": version = "VC71"; break; case "9.00": version = "VC80"; break; case "10.00": version = "VC90"; break; default: throw new ApplicationException("Unknown .sln version: " + format); } } finally { if(solutionStreamReader != null) { solutionStreamReader.Close(); } } return version; } public static string GetVSProgID(string version) { string progid = null; switch(version) { case "VC70": progid = "VisualStudio.DTE.7"; break; case "VC71": progid = "VisualStudio.DTE.7.1"; break; case "VC80": progid = "VisualStudio.DTE.8.0"; break; case "VC90": progid = "VisualStudio.DTE.9.0"; break; default: throw new ApplicationException("Can't handle VS version: " + version); } return progid; } public static bool SetProjectWorkingDir(object sol, string project_name, string working_dir) { bool made_change = false; Console.WriteLine("Looking for project {0}...", project_name); try { object prjs = ViaCOM.GetProperty(sol, "Projects"); object count = ViaCOM.GetProperty(prjs, "Count"); for(int i = 1; i <= (int)count; ++i) { object[] prjItemArgs = { (object)i }; object prj = ViaCOM.CallMethod(prjs, "Item", prjItemArgs); string name = (string)ViaCOM.GetProperty(prj, "Name"); if (0 == string.Compare(name, project_name, ignore_case)) { Console.WriteLine("Found project: {0}", project_name); Console.WriteLine("Setting working directory"); string full_project_name = (string)ViaCOM.GetProperty(prj, "FullName"); Console.WriteLine(full_project_name); // *NOTE:Mani Thanks to incompatibilities between different versions of the // VCProjectEngine.dll assembly, we can't cast the objects recevied from the DTE to // the VCProjectEngine types from a different version than the one built // with. ie, VisualStudio.DTE.7.1 objects can't be converted in a project built // in VS 8.0. To avoid this problem, we can use the com object interfaces directly, // with out the type casting. Its tedious code, but it seems to work. // oCfgs should be assigned to a 'Project.Configurations' collection. object oCfgs = ViaCOM.GetProperty(ViaCOM.GetProperty(prj, "Object"), "Configurations"); // oCount will be assigned to the number of configs present in oCfgs. object oCount = ViaCOM.GetProperty(oCfgs, "Count"); for (int cfgIndex = 1; cfgIndex <= (int)oCount; ++cfgIndex) { object[] itemArgs = {(object)cfgIndex}; object oCfg = ViaCOM.CallMethod(oCfgs, "Item", itemArgs); object oDebugSettings = ViaCOM.GetProperty(oCfg, "DebugSettings"); ViaCOM.SetProperty(oDebugSettings, "WorkingDirectory", (object)working_dir); } break; } } made_change = true; } catch( Exception e ) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); Console.WriteLine("Failed settings working dir for project, {0}.", project_name); } return made_change; } } }