How to get the currently selected configuration and platform

[xEsteem]

Looking to get these currently selected values. Usually you'd go through the DTE > Solution > SolutionBuild > ActiveConfiguration. Can anyone help in pointing me towards how to get this through the VS static class, or other way, without the DTE

[reduckted]

If you're happy with a combined string value like "Debug|AnyCPU", then you can use the IVsSolutionBuildManager service.

var manager = await VS.GetServiceAsync<SVsSolutionBuildManager, IVsSolutionBuildManager>();
var project = await VS.Solutions.GetActiveProjectAsync();

project.GetItemInfo(out var hierarchy, out _, out _);

IVsProjectCfg[] configs = new IVsProjectCfg[1];
ErrorHandler.ThrowOnFailure(manager.FindActiveProjectCfg(IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero, hierarchy, configs));

configs[0].getCanonicalName(out string name);
Debug.WriteLine(name); // Writes "Debug|AnyCPU" or "Release|x64", etc.

[xEsteem]

Thanks for the info! That’s a lot of code!
Do you think perhaps we should look into adding something into the toolkit to make this more accessible (so you could get or set it easily)?