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Author Re: performing a search, jumping to a location in a visual studio macro
tbh

2006-01-20, 7:56 am

it would be great to find out if this bug can be fixed or worked around, so
I'm re-posting with a copy to msdn.general

cheers,

Tim Hanson

"tbh" <femdev@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:uFnaHBCHGHA.2472@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> i'd like to record a macro to perform a search and jump to the location of
> the first hit.
>
> unfortunately, my macro breaks at the step "jump to the location of the
> first hit":
> - i can record the steps to search and jump to the first occurrence (and
> it works while I'm recording), but
> - when i play it back i get an error
>
> editing the macro i find two lines having to do with "jump to the first
> search hit":
> DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindFindResults1).Activate
>
> DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.GoToFindResults1Location")
>
> the second line is the one that yields the error. if i comment it out I
> get no error (but of course I also don't jump to the location I need to
> jump to.)
>
> the error is
> Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
>
> i'd be grateful for pointers to get me past this hurdle.
>
> cheers,
>
> Tim Hanson
>
>
>
>
>



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