VSProject2.Imports Property

Gets the Imports object associated with the project. For C# projects, the Imports property is set to Nothing (a nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) reference).

Namespace:  VSLangProj80
Assembly:  VSLangProj80 (in VSLangProj80.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property Imports As Imports

Imports Imports { get; }

property Imports^ Imports {
    Imports^ get ();
}

abstract Imports : Imports with get

function get Imports () : Imports

Property Value

Type: VSLangProj.Imports
An Imports collection, each item representing an import statement.

Remarks

C# projects do not have project imports. For C# projects, the value of Imports is Nothing (a nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) reference).

Examples

To run this example as an add-in, see How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples. Open a Visual Basic project before running this example.

[Visual Basic]

' Add-in
Imports VSLangProj
Imports VSLangProj80

Public Sub OnConnection(ByVal application As Object, ByVal connectMode _
 As ext_ConnectMode, ByVal addInInst As Object, ByRef custom As Array) _
 Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection
    applicationObject = CType(application, DTE2)
    addInInstance = CType(addInInst, AddIn)
    ListImports(applicationObject)
End Sub

Sub ListImports(ByVal dte As DTE2)
    ' The first project is a Visual Basic or C# project.
    Dim vsproject As VSProject2 = _
    CType(applicationObject.Solution.Projects.Item(1).Object,_
    VSProject2)

    Dim projImports As VSLangProj.Imports = vsproject.Imports
        ' For C# projects, projImports will be Nothing.
    If Not (projImports Is Nothing) Then
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim str As String
        str = ""
        For i = 1 To projImports.Count
            str = (str & str.Concat(projImports.Item(i)) & vbCrLf)
         Next
        MsgBox(str)
    Else
        MsgBox("This project has no imports.")
    End If
End Sub

[C#]

using System.Windows.Forms;
using VSLangProj;
using VSLangProj2;
using VSLangProj80;
public void OnConnection(object application, ext_ConnectMode
 connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
{
    applicationObject = (DTE2)application;
    addInInstance = (AddIn)addInInst;
ListImports((DTE2)applicationObject);
}
public void ListImports( DTE2 dte ) 
{ 
// The first project is a Visual Basic or C# project.
    VSProject2 vsproject = ( ( VSProject2 )
(applicationObject.Solution.Projects.Item( 1 ).Object ) ); 
    VSLangProj.Imports projImports = vsproject.Imports; 
    // For C# projects, projImports will be Nothing.
    if ( !(  projImports == null )) 
    { 
        int i = 0; 
        string str = null; 
        string str1 = projImports.Count.ToString();
        MessageBox.Show("The number of Imports is: " + str1); 
        MessageBox.Show( projImports.ContainingProject.Name ); 
        str = ""; 
        for ( i=1; i<=projImports.Count; i++ ) 
        { 
            str = ( str + String.Concat( projImports.Item( i ) )
 + "\n" ); 
        } 
        MessageBox.Show( str); 
    } 
    else 
    { 
        MessageBox.Show( "This project has no imports."); 
    } 
}

.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

VSProject2 Interface

VSLangProj80 Namespace

Imports