I'm writing a simple VS add-in and would like to programmatically invoke the "Document Format" option (under Edit) within code. Google isn't being very friendly to me today....
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Have you tried Resharper? It can reformat the whole solution for you in one go. (I assume this does not help but I must have tried... ;-) ) – Rashack May 01 '09 at 20:51
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Nah, just trying to roll my own little tool to automatically close braces (yes, I know Resharper does that too, but where's the fun in that??) – BFree May 01 '09 at 20:56
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Command cmd = _applicationObject.Commands.Item("Edit.FormatDocument", -1);
object dummy = null;
_applicationObject.Commands.Raise(cmd.Guid, cmd.ID, ref dummy, ref dummy);
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As it is a first time to check it, i couldnt understand. Can u please specify type of the '_applicationObject' and its namespace.I browsed a little bit that i should use EnvDTE80 namespace but i couldnt proceed. Any codesnippet will be very much helpful. – Madhan Sekar Jun 28 '16 at 06:17
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If you have a reference to your document (of type Window), and you have a reference to the _DTE object, you can call it like this:
myDocument.Activate();
myDTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.FormatDocument", string.Empty);
Most of the time, you can get a reference to the _DTE object from the parameters passed into your add-in.
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Is there any way to format document without opening it? I want to format all documents in project with one click. – Hooch Jul 08 '14 at 08:46
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I don't believe so. You could open, format, and then close the document. – Jason Williams Jul 08 '14 at 15:33
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You'll need to use the standard command editors, called with the VSStd2KCmdId.FORMATDOCUMENT command enumeration.
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