how to get list of assemblies referenced by the current project

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mnowosad - 18 May 2005 03:57 GMT

I am looking for a way, during design-time, to be able to access all
assemblies that were added as references to the currently selected project.

That would allow me, for instance, to open a control editor and populate a
list box with the names of all assemblies referenced by the project that the
control is part of.

I checked the available design-time services like ITypeResolutionService and
IReferenceService and none of them seem to be useful for that purpose.

So how I can do it?

Thanks,
Marcos

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Francisco Padron - 22 May 2005 01:12 GMT

I think you have to go to the Visual Studio IDE automation interfaces
(EnvDTE.DTE) to get this.

I found this code in MSDN (sorry about the VB code, too lazy to translate):

Imports VSLangProj
Sub ListReferences()
' Retrieve the VSProject object.
Dim theVSProject As VSProject = _
CType(DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1).Object, VSProject)

' Retrieve the references collection.
Dim refs As References = theVSProject.References

' Create a string list of the reference names.
Dim refList As String = ""
Dim aRef As Reference
For Each aRef In refs
refList &= aRef.Identity & ControlChars.CrLf
Next
MsgBox(refList)
End Sub

I think this code is for an add-in, however you can obtain the DTE from any
designer/control using GetService:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE) Component.Site.GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));

I hope this helps.

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>I am looking for a way, during design-time, to be able to access all
> assemblies that were added as references to the currently selected
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> Thanks,
> Marcos

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mnowosad - 23 May 2005 18:54 GMT

Thanks for the answer. I actually had already found a similar code in the web
and it worked as expected. However, you gave me a better way to access the
DTE through the designer. I originally was making this Interop COM call:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.7.1");

Instead, after your suggestion, I am using this code, which is much more
compliant to the .NET Component design-time framework:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE) Component.Site.GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));

Thanks again,
Marcos

> I think you have to go to the Visual Studio IDE automation interfaces
> (EnvDTE.DTE) to get this.
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
> > Thanks,
> > Marcos

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