Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Accessing Code Within a Project

Beyond the basic project attributes and items, one of the cooler things that can be accessed via a Project instance is the actual code within the project’s source files. Through the CodeModel property, you can access an entire line of proxy objects representing the code constructs within a project. For instance, the CodeClass interface enables you to examine and edit the code for a given class in a given project.

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Support for the different CodeModel entities varies from language to language. The MSDN documentation for each CodeModel type clearly indicates the source language support for that element.

After grabbing a CodeModel reference from a Project instance, you can access its CodeElements collection (which ...