My seventeenth How do I is up.
Scenario
The Visual Studio output window supports file opening. When we write to the output window a string with a specific mask, we can use the navigation buttons or double click the line and Visual Studio will open the file and position the caret in the corresponding line an column.
Interfaces and classes needed
Code snippet
IServiceProvider serviceProvider = this;
IVsOutputWindow outputwindow =
serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(SVsOutputWindow)) asIVsOutputWindow;
Guid generalGuidPane = VSConstants.GUID_OutWindowGeneralPane;
IVsOutputWindowPane generalPane;
ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(outputwindow.GetPane(ref generalGuidPane, out generalPane));
//MASK:
//FilePath(#Line,#Column) : MessageToDisplay
//Ex:
//D:\Work\Temp\VSPackage4\VSPackage4\VSPackage4Package.cs(83,79) : Foo
generalPane.OutputStringThreadSafe(
string.Concat(
@”D:\Work\Temp\VSPackage4\VSPackage4\VSPackage4Package.cs(83,79) : Foo”,
Environment.NewLine));
ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(generalPane.FlushToTaskList());
Assemblies needed
- Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop, Version=7.1.40304.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
Stay tuned,
Pablo
