Use PowerShell to open a file

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Is there a command to open a project item (such as a class file) from Package Manager Console (a.k.a. PowerShell) within Visual Studio? That is the same thing that would happen when I double-click the file in Solution Explorer.

I tried using Invoke-Item but that happens to open a new instance of Visual Studio.

David Brabant · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-10 07:52:15Z

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$DTE.ExecuteCommand(“File.OpenFile”, "a path to your file")

You can refer to a local project file this way:

$path = [System.IO.Path]
$file = $path::Combine($path::GetDirectoryName($project.FileName), “your local path”)
$DTE.ExecuteCommand(“File.OpenFile”, $file)

answered Feb 10, 2015 at 7:52

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dotNET Over a year ago

How can I pipe it? I appended it to the end of my command, but it says "Expressions are only allowed as the first element of a pipeline."

dotNET Over a year ago

Found it myself. You just need to prepend your command with an ampersand (&) sign and it will work.

MoMo Over a year ago

Any idea on how to silently ignore errors files that do not exist or are not part of the visual studio solution?

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