Powershell function that recursively walks all project items within a project and lets you execute an action on each one

Examples

# Print all project items
Recurse-Project -Action {param($item) "`"$($item.ProjectItem.Name)`" is a $($item.Type)" }

# Function to format all documents based on https://gist.github.com/984353
function Format-Document {
    param(
        [parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
        [string[]]$ProjectName
    )
    Process {
        $ProjectName | %{ 
                        Recurse-Project -ProjectName $_ -Action { param($item)
                        if($item.Type -eq 'Folder' -or !$item.Language) {
                            return
                        }
                        
                        $window = $item.ProjectItem.Open('{7651A701-06E5-11D1-8EBD-00A0C90F26EA}')
                        if ($window) {
                            Write-Host "Processing `"$($item.ProjectItem.Name)`""
                            [System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep(100)
                            $window.Activate()
                            $Item.ProjectItem.Document.DTE.ExecuteCommand('Edit.FormatDocument')
                            $Item.ProjectItem.Document.DTE.ExecuteCommand('Edit.RemoveAndSort')
                            $window.Close(1)
                        }
                    }
        }
    }
}

ProjectItem Recursion

function Recurse-Project {
    param(
        [parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true)]
        [string[]]$ProjectName,
        [parameter(Mandatory = $true)]$Action
    )
    Process {
        # Convert project item guid into friendly name
        function Get-Type($kind) {
            switch($kind) {
                '{6BB5F8EE-4483-11D3-8BCF-00C04F8EC28C}' { 'File' }
                '{6BB5F8EF-4483-11D3-8BCF-00C04F8EC28C}' { 'Folder' }
                default { $kind }
            }
        }
        
        # Convert language guid to friendly name
        function Get-Language($item) {
            if(!$item.FileCodeModel) {
                return $null
            }
            
            $kind = $item.FileCodeModel.Language
            switch($kind) {
                '{B5E9BD34-6D3E-4B5D-925E-8A43B79820B4}' { 'C#' }
                '{B5E9BD33-6D3E-4B5D-925E-8A43B79820B4}' { 'VB' }
                default { $kind }
            }
        }
        
        # Walk over all project items running the action on each
        function Recurse-ProjectItems($projectItems, $action) {
            $projectItems | %{
                $obj = New-Object PSObject -Property @{
                    ProjectItem = $_
                    Type = Get-Type $_.Kind
                    Language = Get-Language $_
                }
                
                & $action $obj
                
                if($_.ProjectItems) {
                    Recurse-ProjectItems $_.ProjectItems $action
                }
            }
        }
        
        if($ProjectName) {
            $p = Get-Project $ProjectName
        }
        else {
            $p = Get-Project
        }
        
        $p | %{ Recurse-ProjectItems $_.ProjectItems $Action } 
    }
}

# Statement completion for project names
Register-TabExpansion 'Recurse-Project' @{
    ProjectName = { Get-Project -All | Select -ExpandProperty Name }
}

Hey, why did you change the casing with $item and $Item. I assume in PS that doesn't matter, but it seems odd that you'd do that. ;)

that's very helpfull to me, thanks a lot!
btw, i want to format the javascipt file (.js), but i don't know the code model language for it, could you how to check this kind of code model languages?

Thanks a lot!

hi,

does this not work with visual studio 2015? For some reason, the filecodemodel property of all my code files in a project/solution is empty and hence the functions are skipping those files. I modified the scripts to use the extension of the file instead to get around this which is a little bit hacky. Any help with this would be much appreciated and thanks for the scripts.