TextPane2.Selection Property

Definition

Namespace:

EnvDTE80

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop.dll

Package:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop v17.9.37000

Gets an object representing the current selection on the TextPane object.

public:
 property EnvDTE::TextSelection ^ Selection { EnvDTE::TextSelection ^ get(); };

public:
 property EnvDTE::TextSelection ^ Selection { EnvDTE::TextSelection ^ get(); };

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(8)]
public EnvDTE.TextSelection Selection { [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(8)] get; }

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(8)>]
[<get: System.Runtime.InteropServices.DispId(8)>]
member this.Selection : EnvDTE.TextSelection

Public ReadOnly Property Selection As TextSelection

Property Value

TextSelection

A TextSelection object.

Implements

Selection

Attributes

DispIdAttribute

Examples

This example opens a text document, displays text in it, and then uses the SelectAll method of the Selection object to select all the text.

Imports EnvDTE  
Imports EnvDTE80  
Sub TextPane2SelectionExample(ByVal dte As DTE2)  
    Dim objTW As TextWindow  
    Dim objPane As TextPane2  
    Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument  
    Dim objTextPt As TextPoint  
    Dim objEP As EditPoint  
    ' Create a new text document.  
    _applicationObject.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")  
    ' Get a handle to the new document and create EditPoint,  
    ' TextPoint, and TextPane objects.  
    objTextDoc = CType(_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object _  
     ("TextDocument"), TextDocument)  
    objEP = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint  
    objTextPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint  
    ' Plug in some text.  
    objEP.Insert("A test sentence.")  
    objTW = CType(DTE.ActiveWindow.Object, TextWindow)  
    objPane = CType(objTW.ActivePane, TextPane2)  
    MsgBox("Using TextPane2.Selection to select all the text...")  
    objPane.Selection.SelectAll()  
End Sub  

using EnvDTE;  
using EnvDTE80;  
using System.Windows.Forms;  
public void TextPane2SelectionExample(DTE2 dte)  
{  
    TextWindow objTW;  
    TextPane2 objPane;  
    TextDocument objTextDoc;  
    TextPoint objTextPt;  
    EditPoint2 objEP;  
    // Create a new text document.  
    _applicationObject.ItemOperations.NewFile  
(@"General\Text File", "test.txt", Constants.vsViewKindTextView);  
    // Get a handle to the text document and create EditPoint2,  
    // TextPoint, and TextPane2 objects.  
    objTextDoc =(TextDocument)_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object  
("TextDocument");  
    objEP = (EditPoint2)objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint();  
    objTextPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint;  
    // Plug in some text.  
    objEP.Insert("A test sentence.");  
    objTW = (TextWindow)_applicationObject.ActiveWindow.Object;  
    objPane = (TextPane2)objTW.ActivePane;  
    MessageBox.Show("Using TextPane2.Selection to   
select all the text...");  
    objPane.Selection.SelectAll();  
}