Imports Interface

Definition

Namespace:

VSLangProj

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop.dll

Contains the collection of all project imports for a Visual Basic project. The specified imports statements are passed directly to the compiler and apply to all the files in the project.

public interface class Imports : System::Collections::IEnumerable

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("642789F9-210D-4574-96FD-5A653451E216")]
public interface Imports : System.Collections.IEnumerable

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("642789F9-210D-4574-96FD-5A653451E216")>]
type Imports = interface
    interface IEnumerable

Public Interface Imports
Implements IEnumerable

Attributes

GuidAttribute

Implements

IEnumerable

Examples

' Macro Editor  
' This routine displays all the project imports.  
Imports VSLangProj  
Public Sub ListImports()  
   ' The first project is a Visual Basic or C# project.  
   Dim vsproject As VSProject = _  
      CType(DTE.Solution.Projects.Item(1).Object, VSProject)  

   Dim projImports As VSLangProj.Imports = vsproject.Imports  
   ' For C# projects, projImports will be Nothing.  
   If Not (projImports Is Nothing) Then  
      Dim i As Integer  
      For i = 1 To projImports.Count  
         MsgBox(projImports.Item(i))  
      Next  
   Else  
      MsgBox("This project has no imports.")  
   End If  
End Sub  

Remarks

This object specifies the namespaces to import for the project. Elements from imported namespaces may be used in code without fully qualifying the name of the element. For example, if the Imports object contains the Namespace1.Namespace2 import statement, then the two following code statements are equally valid:

Namespace1.Namespace2.SomeMethod()  
SomeMethod()  

If the imports statement is not in the collection, then the second, unqualified statement above results in a build error.

Properties

ContainingProject	Gets the project that contains the selected item. Read-only.
Count	Gets a value indicating the number of objects in the collection. Read-only.
DTE	Gets the top-level extensibility object.
Parent	Gets the immediate parent object of a given object.

Methods

Add(String)	Adds a new import statement to the Imports collection.
GetEnumerator()	Gets an enumeration for items in a collection.
Item(Int32)	Returns an indexed member of the Imports object. The Item method is the default method for the Imports object.
Remove(Object)	Removes an imports statement from the Imports collection. The imports statement to be removed may be indexed by either the string specifying the import or by a one-based index.