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

Question

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...

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '13 at 02:07

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;            
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '12 at 18:04

0

Can you give this a try?

Dim objSelection As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection

answered May 15 '12 at 18:04

edocetirwi

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That only gets the current selected text: var vsDTE = visualStudio.VsAddIn.VS_Dte; var textSelection = (TextSelection)vsDTE.ActiveDocument.Selection; return textSelection; – Dinis Cruz May 15 '12 at 22:34

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

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