How to get list of Visual Studio commands?

Question

We are working on an VS extension that requires a list of Visual Studio commands like the one in this screen shot:

Example:

• Action.Add
• Action.Add.NETFrameworkLaunchCondition
• Action.AddAction
• ... etc.

Where can we find or how can we access this list?

Answer 1

You can access it via the DTE interfaces. Get the EnvDTE.DTE interface via GetService(typeof(SDTE)) (or other appropriate mechanism) and then:

EnvDTE.DTE dte = ...;
var commands = dte.Commands.Cast<EnvDTE.Command>();

foreach (var command in commands.OrderBy(c => c.Name))
{
    Console.WriteLine(command.Name);
}

I should mention this can be quite slow, so it's best avoided if you can...

Answer 2

visual studio contains this lists ...\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\*.vsk