VCPlatform.ReferenceDirectories Property

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine.dll

Gets or sets the path to use when searching for files added with the #using directive while building a Visual C++ project.

public:
 property System::String ^ ReferenceDirectories { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public:
 property Platform::String ^ ReferenceDirectories { Platform::String ^ get(); void set(Platform::String ^ value); };

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)]
public string ReferenceDirectories { [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)] get; [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)] set; }

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)>]
[<get: System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)>]
[<set: System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(2502)>]
member this.ReferenceDirectories : string with get, set

Public Property ReferenceDirectories As String

Property Value

String

The path to use when searching for files added with the #using directive. ReferenceDirectories corresponds to the environment variable, LIBPATH.

Attributes

DispIdAttribute

Examples

See How to: Compile Example Code for Project Model Extensibility for information about how to compile and run this example.

The following example modifies the ReferenceDirectories property in the integrated development environment (IDE):

' add reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine  
Imports EnvDTE  
Imports Microsoft.VisualStudio.VCProjectEngine  

Public Module Module1  
    Sub Test()  
        Dim prj As VCProject  
        Dim cfgs, tools As IVCCollection  
        Dim cfg As VCConfiguration  
        Dim p As VCPlatform  
        Dim x As String  
        prj = DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1).Object  
        p = prj.Platforms(1)  
        x = p.ReferenceDirectories  
        p.ReferenceDirectories = x + ";something"  
        MsgBox(p.ReferenceDirectories)  
    End Sub  
End Module  

Remarks

By default in Visual C++ 2010, this property does not inherit from parent or project defaults. To inherit defaults when you set an reference files path, append the project $(ReferencePath) macro to the path. For an example of inheriting project defaults for a property similar to this one, see the remarks and example for ExcludeDirectories.