How to get list of Visual Studio commands?

Question

We are working on an VS extension that requires a list of Visual Studio commands like the one in this screen shot:

Screen Shot from Visual Studio 2010, Tools > Options > Keyboard

Example:

Action.Add
Action.Add.NETFrameworkLaunchCondition
Action.AddAction
... etc.

Where can we find or how can we access this list?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '12 at 02:45

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You can access it via the DTE interfaces. Get the EnvDTE.DTE interface via GetService(typeof(SDTE)) (or other appropriate mechanism) and then:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = ...;
var commands = dte.Commands.Cast<EnvDTE.Command>();

foreach (var command in commands.OrderBy(c => c.Name))
{
    Console.WriteLine(command.Name);
}

I should mention this can be quite slow, so it's best avoided if you can...

answered Aug 10 '12 at 02:45

Jason Malinowski

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There isn't really an async version. The EnvDTE API is affinitized to the UI thread. You could run that on a background thread, but you'll trigger marshaling back to the UI thread transparently which would make the code even slower than it is normally. In the end of the day, enumerating all commands is really one of those "don't do it" things. Normally if somebody asks for this I push back and challenge them why they need to do it. – Jason Malinowski Dec 11 '14 at 19:09

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '12 at 13:17

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visual studio contains this lists ...\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\*.vsk

answered Aug 07 '12 at 13:17

burning_LEGION

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '16 at 08:29

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Here is a handy list of VS commands compiled by Mads Kristensen for his VS VoiceExtension.

answered May 17 '16 at 08:29

bbsimonbb

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How to get list of Visual Studio commands?

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