IVsTrackSelectionEx.GetCurrentSelection Method

Returns 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
'Usage
Dim instance As IVsTrackSelectionEx
Dim ppHier As IntPtr
Dim pitemid As UInteger
Dim ppMIS As IVsMultiItemSelect
Dim ppSC As IntPtr
Dim returnValue As Integer

returnValue = instance.GetCurrentSelection(ppHier, _
    pitemid, ppMIS, ppSC)

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 a pointer to the IVsHierarchy interface of the current selection.

pitemid
Type: System.UInt32%
[out] Pointer to the item identifier of the current selection. For a list of valid pitemid values, see VSITEMID.

ppMIS
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsMultiItemSelect%
[out] Pointer to a pointer to the IVsMultiItemSelect interface of the window containing the current selection.

ppSC
Type: System.IntPtr%
[out] Pointer to a pointer to the ISelectionContainer interface of the current selection.

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

If the content of the pitemid parameter is VSITEMID_SELECTION, which indicates indicate a selection made up of multiple items, retrieve the selected items with GetSelectedItems using the interface pointed to by ppMIS.

.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.