How could I get user selected code in Visual Studio 2015

Question

The selected.Contains throws a null pointer exception, even though the user has selected some code before invoking the method.

this.package = package;        

string selected;
selected = (string)this.ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(TextSelection));

if (selected.Contains("for")) 
{
    MessageBox.Show("user "  + "selected" + selected);
}

selected = (string)this.ServiceProvider.GetService(typeof(TextSelection)); is the problem. The string is null and thats why Contains method can't be called. What does .GetService() return and does it actually return anything? Since it's null. Might not be a natural conversion — Petter Pettersson, Jun 10 '16 at 09:48
At this point I just want to see a working example of getting user selected code. GetService() was returning a method. @PetterPettersson — Christmas, Jun 10 '16 at 11:33
Use DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24402325/how-to-add-text-in-active-document-using-c-sharp — Sergey Vlasov, Jun 11 '16 at 05:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '16 at 19:46

I'll get you most the way there.

 private IVsEditorAdaptersFactoryService GetEditorAdaptersFactoryService()
 {
        IComponentModel componentModel =(IComponentModel)GetService(typeof(SComponentModel));
        return componentModel.GetService<IVsEditorAdaptersFactoryService>();
 }   
private Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.IWpfTextView GetTextView()
 {
        IVsTextManager textManager = (IVsTextManager)GetService(typeof(SVsTextManager));
        if (textManager == null)
            return null;
        IVsTextView textView = null;
        textManager.GetActiveView(1, null, out textView);
        if (textView == null)
            return null;
        return GetEditorAdaptersFactoryService().GetWpfTextView(textView);
 }
public void SomeFUnction()
{
    Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.IWpfTextView textView = GetTextView();
    if (textView != null)
    {
                    SnapshotPoint caretPosition = textView.Caret.Position.BufferPosition;
    }
}

Now you have the caret position its on you to figure out what's there. Something like textView.GetTextElementSpan(caretPosition).GetText()

How could I get user selected code in Visual Studio 2015

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