IVsMonitorSelection.GetCurrentSelection Method

Article
07/12/2014

Returns the current project hierarchy, project item, and selection container for the current selection.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function GetCurrentSelection ( _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef ppHier As IntPtr, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef pitemid As UInteger, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef ppMIS As IVsMultiItemSelect, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef ppSC As IntPtr _
) As Integer

int GetCurrentSelection(
    out IntPtr ppHier,
    out uint pitemid,
    out IVsMultiItemSelect ppMIS,
    out IntPtr ppSC
)

int GetCurrentSelection(
    [OutAttribute] IntPtr% ppHier, 
    [OutAttribute] unsigned int% pitemid, 
    [OutAttribute] IVsMultiItemSelect^% ppMIS, 
    [OutAttribute] IntPtr% ppSC
)

abstract GetCurrentSelection : 
        ppHier:IntPtr byref * 
        pitemid:uint32 byref * 
        ppMIS:IVsMultiItemSelect byref * 
        ppSC:IntPtr byref -> int

function GetCurrentSelection(
    ppHier : IntPtr, 
    pitemid : uint, 
    ppMIS : IVsMultiItemSelect, 
    ppSC : IntPtr
) : int

Parameters

ppHier
Type: System.IntPtr%

[out] Pointer to the IVsHierarchy interface of the current project hierarchy if the selection belongs to a single hierarchy. If the selection belongs to multiple hierarchies, ppHier is set to nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

pitemid
Type: System.UInt32%

[out] Pointer to the identifier for the current project item. If pitemid is set to VSITEMID_SELECTION, the current selection involves multiple items. These items can be accessed using the IVsMultiItemSelect interface pointed to by ppMIS.

ppMIS
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsMultiItemSelect%

[out] Pointer to the IVsMultiItemSelect interface to be used to access a multiple selection.

ppSC
Type: System.IntPtr%

[out] Pointer to the ISelectionContainer interface to be used to access data for the Properties window.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From vsshell.idl:

HRESULT IVsMonitorSelection::GetCurrentSelection(
   [out] IVsHierarchy        **ppHier,
   [out] VSITEMID             *pitemid,
   [out] IVsMultiItemSelect  **ppMIS,
   [out] ISelectionContainer **ppSC
);

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.