Question

In MSVC several operations (such as Menu: Build: Build ) are context sensitive to the currently selected Solution Project. However, that Project often changes if you’ve been navigating Solution Explorer.

I’d like to write a macro that find the project specified as the “startup project”, and the selects it to make it active. I haven’t found the appropriate DTE calls though.

Answer 1

My primary goal was to build the startup project, which I have found a solution to:

Public Sub BuildStartupProject()
    Dim sb As SolutionBuild = DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild
    Dim projName As String = sb.StartupProjects(0)
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.Output")
    sb.BuildProject(sb.ActiveConfiguration.Name, projName, False)
End Sub

From the Chromium project wiki.