Find.FilesOfType Property

Definition

Namespace:

EnvDTE

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop.dll

Gets or sets the file extension for the files to be searched.

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

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

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)]
public string FilesOfType { [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)] get; [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)] set; }

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)>]
[<get: System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)>]
[<set: System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(15)>]
member this.FilesOfType : string with get, set

Public Property FilesOfType As String

Property Value

String

The file extension for the files to be searched.

Attributes

DispIdAttribute

Examples

Sub FilesOfTypeExample()  
   Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument  
   Dim objEditPt As EditPoint  
   Dim iCtr As Integer  
   Dim objFind As Find  

   ' Create a new text file.  
   DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")  

   ' Get a handle to the new document and create an EditPoint.  
   objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")  
   objEditPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint  
   objFind = objTextDoc.DTE.Find  

   ' Insert ten lines of text.  
   For iCtr = 1 To 10  
      objEditPt.Insert("This is a test." & Chr(13))  
   Next iCtr  

   ' Set the find options.  
   objFind.Action = vsFindAction.vsFindActionReplaceAll  
   objFind.Backwards = False  
   objFind.FilesOfType = "*.txt"  
   objFind.FindWhat = "test"  
   objFind.KeepModifiedDocumentsOpen = True  
   objFind.MatchCase = False  
   objFind.MatchInHiddenText = False  
   objFind.MatchWholeWord = True  
   objFind.PatternSyntax = vsFindPatternSyntax.vsFindPatternSyntaxLiteral  
   objFind.ReplaceWith = "NEW THING"  
   objFind.ResultsLocation = vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResultsNone  
   objFind.SearchPath = "c:\temp"  
   objFind.SearchSubfolders = False  
   objFind.Target = vsFindTarget.vsFindTargetCurrentDocument  
   ' Perform the Find operation.  
   objFind.Execute()  
End Sub  

Remarks

The FilesOfType argument can be any three-character file extension, such as .bas, .cpp, .txt, and so forth. Also, FilesOfType corresponds to the File types box. It is a semi-colon delimited list of wildcard patterns to search. It works similarly to the MS-DOS dir command. You can, for example, set FilesOfType to MyProg*.cpp. You can only use the wildcard characters on files, however, not directories. So, for example, you could not use Sample*\abc*.cpp.