Documents.Parent Property

Gets the immediate parent object of a Documents collection.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property Parent As DTE

'Usage
Dim instance As Documents 
Dim value As DTE 

value = instance.Parent

DTE Parent { get; }

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

function get Parent () : DTE

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE.DTE
A DTE object.

Remarks

The Parent property returns the immediate parent to the object or collection.

Examples

public void Example(DTE2 dte)
{
   try
   {
      // Run this code after opening a project with at least one document.
      Documents docs;

      // Return the documents collection in the current application instance.
      docs = dte.Documents;

      // Show the number of open documents in the current application.
      MessageBox.Show(docs.Count.ToString());

      // Show the parent object of the current docs collection.
      MessageBox.Show(docs.Parent.FullName);
   }
   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

Documents Interface

Documents Members

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

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