How to get list of projects in current Visual studio solution?

Question

When we open Package Manager Console in any open solution, it shows all the projects of that solution. How it is loading all the projects of the same solution. When I tried with below shown code it is fetching me projects of the first solution which I have opened.

    private List<Project> GetProjects()
    {
        var dte = (DTE)Marshal.GetActiveObject(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "VisualStudio.DTE.{0}.0", targetVsVersion));
        var projects = dte.Solution.OfType<Project>().ToList();
        return projects;
    }

Answer 1

Here are a various set of functions that allow you to enumerate projects in a given solution. This is how you would use it with the current solution:

// get current solution
IVsSolution solution = (IVsSolution)Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(IVsSolution));
foreach(Project project in GetProjects(solution))
{
    ....
}

....

public static IEnumerable<EnvDTE.Project> GetProjects(IVsSolution solution)
{
    foreach (IVsHierarchy hier in GetProjectsInSolution(solution))
    {
        EnvDTE.Project project = GetDTEProject(hier);
        if (project != null)
            yield return project;
    }
}

public static IEnumerable<IVsHierarchy> GetProjectsInSolution(IVsSolution solution)
{
    return GetProjectsInSolution(solution, __VSENUMPROJFLAGS.EPF_LOADEDINSOLUTION);
}

public static IEnumerable<IVsHierarchy> GetProjectsInSolution(IVsSolution solution, __VSENUMPROJFLAGS flags)
{
    if (solution == null)
        yield break;

    IEnumHierarchies enumHierarchies;
    Guid guid = Guid.Empty;
    solution.GetProjectEnum((uint)flags, ref guid, out enumHierarchies);
    if (enumHierarchies == null)
        yield break;

    IVsHierarchy[] hierarchy = new IVsHierarchy[1];
    uint fetched;
    while (enumHierarchies.Next(1, hierarchy, out fetched) == VSConstants.S_OK && fetched == 1)
    {
        if (hierarchy.Length > 0 && hierarchy[0] != null)
            yield return hierarchy[0];
    }
}

public static EnvDTE.Project GetDTEProject(IVsHierarchy hierarchy)
{
    if (hierarchy == null)
        throw new ArgumentNullException("hierarchy");

    object obj;
    hierarchy.GetProperty(VSConstants.VSITEMID_ROOT, (int)__VSHPROPID.VSHPROPID_ExtObject, out obj);
    return obj as EnvDTE.Project;
}