CommandWindow.DTE Property

Gets the top-level extensibility object.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property DTE As DTE

'Usage
Dim instance As CommandWindow 
Dim value As DTE 

value = instance.DTE

DTE DTE { get; }

property DTE^ DTE {
    DTE^ get ();
}

function get DTE () : DTE

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE.DTE
A DTE object.

Remarks

In Visual Studio, the DTE object is the root of the automation model, which other object models often call "Application."

Examples

public void CodeExample(DTE2 dte, AddIn addin)
{
    try
    {
        // Get a reference to a Command window.
        Window win = dte.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindCommandWindow);
        CommandWindow cmdWin = (CommandWindow)win.Object;
        // Add some text to the window.
        cmdWin.OutputString("This is a line of text in the CommandWindow TextDocument");
        // Return the contents of the TextDocument and display them.
        TextDocument txtDoc = cmdWin.TextDocument;
        TextSelection txtSel = txtDoc.Selection;
        TextRanges txtRanges = txtSel.TextRanges;
        // Show text in textdocument.
        foreach (TextRange txtRange in txtRanges)
        {
            txtRange.StartPoint.StartOfDocument();
            MessageBox.Show(txtRange.StartPoint.GetText(txtRange.EndPoint));
        }
        // Show the CommandWindow's parent object's caption property
        MessageBox.Show("The Parent window's caption: " + cmdWin.Parent.Caption);
        // Show the application object containing the CommandWindow.
        MessageBox.Show(cmdWin.DTE.Name);
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

.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

CommandWindow Interface

CommandWindow Members

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples