Get full list of available commands for DTE.ExecuteCommand

Question

I use VS2010 and Addin, using DTE.ExecuteCommand and commands like Build, Build.Cancel, Build.RebuildSolution, etc.

You can get a command with DTE.Commands.Item(\"xxx\")

Answer 1

A list of commands can be examined by following this procedure:

• Open Visual Studio's Options Dialog Box
• Select the Environment/Keyboard page
• You can search for a specific command in the "Show commands containing:" box, or just scroll the list behind it.

Answer 2

Here is the list that Mads Kristensen uses for his VoiceExtension add-in: https://raw.github.com/ligershark/VoiceExtension/master/VoiceExtension/Resources/commands.txt

Answer 3

Question is a bit old, but I ran into the same recently. I used the Commands collection from EnvDTE.DTE (here), that can be retrieved in a few lines of power shell. As you mentionned, the list is very long, and you may want to filter the output.

# Get Visual Studio 2015 type
# -- find other version in registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.DTE.x.x
$type = [System.Type]::GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.14.0")
# Create an instance of EnvDTE.DTE - actually launches a devenv.exe process
$dte = [System.Activator]::CreateInstance($type,$true)
# list of Commands is output simply when typing : Can be very long
$dte.Commands
# Will output the name of the command, its GUID and other attributes
# Close process when done
$dte.Quit()

Answer 4

You can use immediate window to do it. Simply type '>' and start typing command.