Visual Studio: Printing all source files in a solution? - visual-studio

Question

Is there a way to print all (*.cs) files in a solution at once, that is, without clicking on each of them and then hitting print?

Answer 1

From what I gather from a similar question asked elsewhere, this "feature" is not build into Visual Studio.
However it looks like MSDN has a macro you can use to print all of your code; perhaps you can use this, or something like it:
Sub PrintItemsInSelectedProject()
Dim proj As Project
Dim objProj As Object()
objProj = DTE.ActiveSolutionProjects
If objProj.Length = 0 Then
Exit Sub
End If
proj = DTE.ActiveSolutionProjects(0)
PrintItemsInSelectedProject(proj.ProjectItems)
End Sub
Private Sub PrintItemsInSelectedProject( _
ByVal projitems As ProjectItems)
Dim projitem As ProjectItem
For Each projitem In projitems
If (IsPrintableFile(projitem) = True) Then
If (projitem.IsOpen( _
EnvDTE.Constants.vsViewKindTextView)) Then
projitem.Document.PrintOut()
Else
Dim doc As Document
doc = projitem.Open( _
EnvDTE.Constants.vsViewKindTextView).Document
doc.PrintOut()
doc.Close(vsSaveChanges.vsSaveChangesNo)
End If
End If
PrintItemsInSelectedProject(projitem.ProjectItems)
Next
End Sub
Function IsPrintableFile( _
ByVal projItem As ProjectItem) As Boolean
Dim fileName As String
Dim extensions As _
New System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection
' If you add a file to your project that is of
' a type that can be printed,
' then add the extension of that
' file type to this list.
Dim exts As String() = {".cs", ".vb", _
".aspx", ".xsd", ".xml", ".xslt", _
".config", ".htm", ".html", ".css", _
".js", ".vbs", ".wsf", ".txt", ".cpp", _
".c", ".h", ".idl", ".def", ".rgs", ".rc"}
extensions.AddRange(exts)
fileName = projItem.FileNames(1)
Return extensions.Contains( _
System.IO.Path.GetExtension(fileName).ToLower())
End Function

Answer 2

Putting aside the fun comments from tree-huggers, let's assume you want to printout the Visual Studio solution as PDF (and we won't ask what you do with it later).
For people who use VisualStudio there is a very nice program that used to be sold but is now available to download for free, called PrettyCode.Print for .NET 2.0. It is available for download here (the company retired the product).
It reads in a VisualStudio project (works with VS2005, VS2008 and VS2010) and let one print a selection of files with various printing options. It does a pretty decent job.

Answer 3

You can download PrettyCode.Print for .NET 2.0 (VS2008 and VS2005) in:http://pan.baidu.com/wap/shareview?&shareid=3968547697&uk=286220058&dir=%2FSoftz&page=1&num=20&fsid=1117386981714891&third=0
In my computer work fine with Visual Studio 2013.

Answer 4

Use powershell to print all *.cs files.
First get list of all files
$files = Get-Childitem -Path C:\Users\David\source\repos\ConsoleApp -Exclude AssemblyInfo.cs, Program.cs -Include *.cs -Recurse
When your happy with list
foreach ($file in $files){ Get-Content $file.FullName |Out-printer}