ProvideLanguageCodeExpansionAttribute.SearchPaths Property

Gets or sets a semicolon-delimited string containing the default paths to search for snippets.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.12.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.12.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property SearchPaths As String

public string SearchPaths { get; set; }

public:
property String^ SearchPaths {
    String^ get ();
    void set (String^ value);
}

member SearchPaths : string with get, set

function get SearchPaths () : String 
function set SearchPaths (value : String)

Property Value

Type: String
Returns a semicolon-delimited string containing the paths to search for snippets.

Remarks

The paths specified by this option are a semi-colon-delimited list and are used to look for snippets if the index file cannot be found. The search paths can contain certain substitution variables; see Support for Code Snippets (Managed Package Framework) for details.

This property is available to any language service implementation.

The registry entry looks like this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[X.Y]\Languages\Language Services\CodeExpansions\
  [Language Name]\
    Paths\
      (Default)       = reg_sz:
      [Language Name] = reg_sz: [SearchPaths]

Examples

    [ProvideCodeExpansion(typeof(MyLanguageService),            // Required
                            MyConstants.languageName,           // Required
                            MyConstants.languageNameResourceID, // Required
                            MyConstants.languageIdentifier,     // Required
                            MyConstants.snippetsIndexFilePath,  // Required
        // Optional code expansion properties
        SearchPaths = @"%InstallRoot%\MyLanguage\Snippets\%LCID%\Snippets;" +
                      @"\%MyDocs%\Code Snippets\MyLanguage\My Code Snippets";
                         )]

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

ProvideLanguageCodeExpansionAttribute Class

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell Namespace

Other Resources

Support for Code Snippets (Managed Package Framework)