Getting the cursor location in Visual Studio to clipboard - visual-studio

Question

Often when describing an issue in code, I need to reference it by line/column/function.
Is there a macro/add-in for Visual Studio that copies that information for me?
It would be perfect if it could copy to clipboard: File, Line, column, function name
But I'd take any combination :).
Thanks!

Answer 1

I ended up doing a macro. Unfortunately I was unable to access the clipboard from the macro so I had to use NirCmd for that part. Other than that, it works great!
Public Sub CopyLocation()
Dim fileName = DTE.ActiveDocument.Name
Dim line = ""
Dim column = ""
Dim functionName = ""
Dim className = ""
Dim textDocument = TryCast(DTE.ActiveDocument.Object, TextDocument)
If textDocument IsNot Nothing Then
Dim activePoint = textDocument.Selection.ActivePoint
column = activePoint.DisplayColumn
line = activePoint.Line
Dim codeElement As CodeElement
codeElement = activePoint.CodeElement(vsCMElement.vsCMElementFunction)
If codeElement IsNot Nothing Then
functionName = codeElement.Name
End If
codeElement = activePoint.CodeElement(vsCMElement.vsCMElementClass)
If codeElement IsNot Nothing Then
className = codeElement.Name
End If
End If
Dim output As String = String.Format("File: {0} ", fileName)
If (String.IsNullOrEmpty(line) = False) Then output = output & String.Format("Line: {0} ", line)
If (String.IsNullOrEmpty(column) = False) Then output = output & String.Format("Column: {0} ", column)
If (String.IsNullOrEmpty(className) = False) Then output = output & String.Format("at {0}", className)
If (String.IsNullOrEmpty(functionName) = False) Then output = output & String.Format(".{0}", functionName)
Dim process As System.Diagnostics.Process
process.Start("c:\NoInstall files\nircmd.exe", String.Format("clipboard set ""{0}""", output))
End Sub