Utilities Members

A collection of static utility and helper methods.

The Utilities type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	ContainsInvalidFileNameChars	Determines whether a file name or path contains illegal characters.
	ConvertFromType<T>	Converts a string to an enumeration using a converter.
	ConvertToType<T>	Calls a converter to convert an enumeration to a specific type.
	CreateCADWORD	Creates a CADWORD from a list of tagVsSccFilesFlags. Memory is allocated for the element.
	CreateCALPOLESTR	Creates a CALPOLESTR from a list of strings.
	CreateSccFlagsCADWORD	Creates a list of tagVsSccFilesFlags from a CADWORD.
	CreateSemicolonDelimitedListOfStringFromGuids	Creates a semicolon-delimited list of strings. This can be used to provide the properties for VSHPROPID_CfgPropertyPagesCLSIDList, VSHPROPID_PropertyPagesCLSIDList, or VSHPROPID_PriorityPropertyPagesCLSIDList.
	CreateStringsFromCALPOLESTR	Creates a list of strings from a CALPOLESTR.
	GetImageList	Overloaded. Creates an ImageList of 16x16 images by splitting a bitmap.
	GetMsBuildPath	Overloaded. Gets the path for MSBuild from the registry under the current hive.
	GuidsArrayFromSemicolonDelimitedStringOfGuids	Gets an array of GUIDs from a semicolon-delimited string.
	IsFileNameInvalid	Determines whether the specified file name is invalid.
	IsInAutomationFunction	Determines whether an extensibility object is currently executing automation code.
	IsSameComObject	Determines whether two objects represent the same COM object.
	IsVisualStudioInDesignMode	Determines whether the design mode context is active.
	RecursivelyCopyDirectory	Copies recursively from the source directory to the target (nonexistent) directory.
	SetStringValueFromConvertedEnum<T>	Sets a string value from an enumeration.
	ValidateFileName	Validates a file path by validating all the parts of the path. If the file name is invalid, it throws an exception if the project is in automation; otherwise it shows a dialog box with the error message.

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Utilities Class

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package Namespace