c# - Visual Studio Extension get all classes and interfaces metadata

Question

I have successfully created the Visual Studio Extension project. It works nice and neat. I made some event for solutions.

The manuals in MSDN and the Internet are brief. And I cannot find an answer to my question: How can I retrieve all metadata related to the class and interfaces (namespaces, class names, base types, etc.) in the solution where this Extension Package is installed?

Answer 1

You can use ITypeDiscoveryService to list all available types in project.

To do this, you should add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Design reference to project. This way you can use DynamicTypeService to get an instance of ITypeDiscoveryService.

Add this methods to your Package class:

public List<Type> GetAllTypes()
{
    var trs = GetTypeDiscoveryService();
    var types = trs.GetTypes(typeof(object), true /*excludeGlobalTypes*/);
    var result = new List<Type>();
    foreach (Type type in types)
    {
        if (type.IsPublic)
        {
            if (!result.Contains(type))
                result.Add(type);
        }
    }
    return result;
}

private ITypeDiscoveryService GetTypeDiscoveryService()
{
    var dte = GetService<EnvDTE.DTE>();
    var typeService = GetService<DynamicTypeService>();
    var solution = GetService<IVsSolution>();
    IVsHierarchy hier;
    var projects = dte.ActiveSolutionProjects as Array;
    var currentProject = projects.GetValue(0) as Project;
    solution.GetProjectOfUniqueName(currentProject.UniqueName, out hier);
    return typeService.GetTypeDiscoveryService(hier);
}

private T GetService<T>()
{
    return (T)GetService(typeof(T));
}

Then you can use GetAllTypes to get all types of active project:

List<Type> types= GetAllTypes();