VSPackage: File change event for all files

Question

I'd like to bind an event to all the files in the project and watch for a change. My problem is that I don't know the file location but it has a specific naming convention. So I would like to check the event for the filename then trigger my code based on that. But right now I only see the IVsFileChangeEx class to use which only supports binding to a specific file.

Is there any API that supports an event for ANY file that was changed inside or outside of visual studio?

Answer 1

Hi Mixmasterxp,

I can't make sence well, you want to change all files no matter their different types? Can you show more detail about your issue?

I know there are many APIs under the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop, you can find one in it.

Best regards,

Disley

Answer 2

Hello Disley,

I do not want to change the files. I want to watch for file changes, so any time a specific file with a name is changed, an event is fired. I'm thinking about just attaching the events by looping through all files in the project.

Answer 3

I do not believe there is a 'any file has changed' event, file change monitoring is generally done per interesting file (where the listener defines interesting).

Ryan

Answer 4

Hi Shawn,

Have you any update?

Best regards,

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Answer 5

You can use EnvDte to do this.

Subscribe to DocumentsEvents , be sure to keep a local reference to the DocumentsEvents, otherwise the event will not fire.

private DocumentEvents _documentEvents;

public Constructor(){
 this._documentEvents = this.dte.Events.DocumentEvents;
            this._documentEvents.DocumentSaved += new _dispDocumentEvents_DocumentSavedEventHandler(this.OnDocumentSaved);
}

Depends if you can track only when the document is saved. otherwise you need to subscribe to the bufferchanged event (MEF extensibility)