How to get the project names through solution explorer click event.

Question

Hi Do some one know how capture solution file name and the children directory names through solution click event in Visual studio 2008 2010. Idea is:- My application is in C# . Net 3.5 with VS2008 1. I click on solution file and start building my solution. 2. In mean time I have to invoke an application in prebuild event then my application should get the path of .SLN file automatically. 3. Then my application should list all the VCPROJECT in the file and the relevent source and include directory. A quick help will be appreciated.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Perhaps there is a better way of doing what you need to do. Do you need to know all the projects in a solution? You can do it using macros. Try this. In the VS Tools menu choose Macros | Macros Explorer. In the Macros Explorer expand the Samples node then the Utilities node. Run the ListProj macro. That will show the files in the current project. You can also use a macro to list all the projects in a solution; I think it would be DTE.Solution.Projects. Does that help?

Suthish Nair · Answer

While creating a project check in which all folders (by default in My Documents/VS 2008/Projects) the .sln file get saved.