Documents

Document objects are used to represent an open document in the IDE. To contrast this abstraction with that provided by the Window object, a Window object is used to represent the physical UI aspects of a document window, whereas a Document object is used to represent the physical document that is being displayed within that document window.

A document could be a designer, such as the Windows Forms Designer, or it could be a text-based document such as a ReadMe file or a C# code file open in an editor.

Just as you get a list of all open windows using the DTE.Windows collection, you can use the DTE.Documents collection to retrieve a list of all open documents.

Dim documents As Documents = DTE.Documents

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