If you want to log searches for code or perhaps wanted to provide a better UI for search results, then you need to listen to search events with a Visual Studio Addin/VSPackage.
Unfortunately, there still isn’t a direct interface for getting search results… you actually have to copy the text from the UI window…yuck.
Here is some code that does this:
First, setup the find “done” event handler.
EnvDTE.FindEvents m_findEvents;
protected override void Initialize()
{
Trace.WriteLine (string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "Entering Initialize() of: {0}", this.ToString()));
base.Initialize();
var dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));
if (dte != null)
{
m_findEvents = dte.Events.FindEvents;
m_findEvents.FindDone += new EnvDTE._dispFindEvents_FindDoneEventHandler(m_findEvents_FindDone);
}
}Now, process the results by grabbing the find results window and copying the text in the window.
void m_findEvents_FindDone(EnvDTE.vsFindResult Result, bool Cancelled)
{
var dte = (EnvDTE.DTE)GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));
// Get search term, window location, etc...;
var x = dte.Find.FindWhat;
var guid = dte.Find.ResultsLocation == vsFindResultsLocation.vsFindResults1 ?
"{0F887920-C2B6-11D2-9375-0080C747D9A0}" : "{0F887921-C2B6-11D2-9375-0080C747D9A0}";
var findWindow = dte.Windows.Item(guid);
var selection = findWindow.Selection as TextSelection;
// Get search text results;
var endPoint = selection.AnchorPoint.CreateEditPoint();
endPoint.EndOfDocument();
var text = endPoint.GetLines(1, endPoint.Line);
}References:
In order to get “Find Symbol” results, might have to use a mpf service…