How to "Select all and Copy" on the Error List of Visual Studio using Visual Studio2019 Macros

Question

I know that we can do a Ctrl A + Ctrl C on the error list to copy all items in the error list. I want to automate this using Visual Studio Macros.

DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.SelectAll");

is not working for me. It says "Command Edit.SelectAll is not available". What could be done to do a Ctrl A operation using Visual Studio Macro?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '21 at 04:05

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You can use SendKeys to emulate Ctrl A when the Error List window is selected:

System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("^a");

answered Mar 20 '21 at 04:05

Sergey Vlasov

Do I have to import any library or anything as such? Because it says " 'System' is undefined" – Vidhathri Avadhany Mar 22 '21 at 05:38
It is in assembly System.Windows.Forms.dll. What do you use to create the macro? – Sergey Vlasov Mar 22 '21 at 07:36
I am using JavaScripts, because macros are recorded as JavaScript files that call VS DTE APIs – Vidhathri Avadhany Mar 23 '21 at 08:27
Macros for Visual Studio extension probably doesn't support it. As an alternative, you can use SendKeys with my Visual Commander extension. – Sergey Vlasov Mar 24 '21 at 08:57
Thanks Sergey Vlasov! This worked. Further, is it possible to run this macro from the CLI? I will keep Visual Studio open, but I would like to run this from the CLI. How do we do that? – Vidhathri Avadhany Mar 24 '21 at 18:59
@VidhathriAvadhany Answered here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66740973/how-to-trigger-a-visual-studio-macro-from-the-command-prompt/ – Sergey Vlasov Mar 25 '21 at 05:17

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