Selection Class

Represents a set of objects selected by a user in a designer.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Windows.Design.Interaction
Assembly:  Microsoft.Windows.Design.Interaction (in Microsoft.Windows.Design.Interaction.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class Selection _
    Inherits ContextItem
'Usage
Dim instance As Selection
public class Selection : ContextItem
public ref class Selection : public ContextItem
public class Selection extends ContextItem

Remarks

The concept of selection is different for different types of designers. When a user selects objects in a designer, there are some standard behaviors the designer should exhibit. For example, the user should be able to select an object, select multiple objects, deselect objects, and select all objects. You can use extensibility to control how the user selects objects in the designer.

Note

Other types of selection that are not covered here include text selection, where a range of text on an object is selected, and point selection, where one or more points on a curve are selected. Complex selection patterns, such as dragging a rectangle to select several objects, are handled by the TaskProvider providers of those objects.

When multiple objects are selected in a designer, one object is the primary selection object. The primary selection object is often used as a key for other behaviors. For example, to align all selected objects to the left, the primary selection object determines where to align the objects.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.Windows.Design.ContextItem
    Microsoft.Windows.Design.Interaction.Selection

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Selection Members

Microsoft.Windows.Design.Interaction Namespace

SelectionCommands

SelectionOperations

SelectionTool

EditingContext

Other Resources

WPF Designer Extensibility Architecture