PackageUtilities.IsCapabilityMatch Method (String, String)

Checks whether a given project matches the requirements prescribed in an AppliesTo expression.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.12.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.12.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function IsCapabilityMatch ( _
    capabilities As String, _
    capabilityAppliesToExpression As String _
) As Boolean

public static bool IsCapabilityMatch(
    string capabilities,
    string capabilityAppliesToExpression
)

public:
static bool IsCapabilityMatch(
    String^ capabilities, 
    String^ capabilityAppliesToExpression
)

static member IsCapabilityMatch : 
        capabilities:string * 
        capabilityAppliesToExpression:string -> bool

public static function IsCapabilityMatch(
    capabilities : String, 
    capabilityAppliesToExpression : String
) : boolean

Parameters

• capabilities
  Type: String

  A space-delimited list of project capabilities, same format as __VSHPROPID5.VSHPROPID_ProjectCapabilities. This parameter can be nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty and results in an empty set of project capabilities during evaluation.

• capabilityAppliesToExpression
  Type: String

  The capability expression, such as (VisualC | CSharp) + (MSTest | NUnit). The '|' is the OR operator. The '&' and '+' characters are both AND operators. The '!' character is the NOT operator. Parentheses force evaluation precedence order. A null or empty expression is evaluated as a match.

Return Value

Type: Boolean
true if the project contains a matching set of project capabilities; otherwise, false.

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

PackageUtilities Class

IsCapabilityMatch Overload

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell Namespace