Accessing VS complete solution in roslyn

Question

How can we access the complete visual studio solution from code analyzer in Roslyn?

I have been trying semantic analysis without much help.

var sol = ((Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Diagnostics.WorkspaceAnalyzerOptions)context.Options)
    .Workspace.CurrentSolution;

This is what I came up with using intellisense but this always gives a null value.

Answer 1

In general, you can't. Analyzers run as part of commandline builds in csc and vbc, which have no notion of Workspaces or Solutions.

We are considering adding a VS specific analyzer API that would allow access to the Solution, but for Roslyn's 1.0 release, there is no supported way to do so.