Get ProjectItem path without using item.Document.FullName

Question

I have a visual studio add-in project where I must iterate through the current project's items, utilizing the absolute (or relative) path to those files.

The item.Document.FullName works, but only for files that are currently opened.

Is there any other way to access this information in the DTE object?

Answer 1

Is this what you're looking for?

myProjectItem.Properties.Item("FullPath").Value

Answer 2

Even I was looking for a solution to get the project name based on the document or file Name. I found it by using the DTE object. Initialized the DTE object like the code shown below.

EnvDTE80.DTE2 objDTE = this.GetService(typeof(SDTE)) as EnvDTE80.DTE2;

Then I used following code, to get the name of the project.

var projectItem = objDTE.Solution.FindProjectItem(document);
var projectUniqueName = projectItem.ContainingProject.UniqueName;

Answer 3

We found that, unless we wanted to parse the XML project files ourselves, you have to first load any unloaded projects.

We record the list and unload them again afterwards so the only issue is the time it takes to load them.

Answer 4

ProjectItem.FileNames is a collection that represents the full paths of the associated files

For example if you have webform item called "MyWebForm" you can get from ProjectItem.FileNames the full path of the MyWebForm.ascx file an the full path name of the MyWebForm.ascx.cs (CodeBehind) file