SelectedItem.Collection Property

Gets the SelectedItems collection containing the SelectedItem object supporting this.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property Collection As SelectedItems

'Usage
Dim instance As SelectedItem 
Dim value As SelectedItems 

value = instance.Collection

SelectedItems Collection { get; }

property SelectedItems^ Collection {
    SelectedItems^ get ();
}

function get Collection () : SelectedItems

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE.SelectedItems
A SelectedItems collection.

Examples

public void CodeExample(DTE2 dte)
{  
    try
    {
        // Open project and select one or more items in the
        // solution explorer before running this example.
        SelectedItem selItem;
        string msg = "";
        if (dte.SelectedItems.Count > 0)
        {
            selItem = dte.SelectedItems.Item(1);
            msg = "The first selected item is " + selItem.Name;
            msg += "\nThis SelectedItem corresponds to the following ProjectItem: " + selItem.ProjectItem.Name;
            msg += "\nThis SelectedItem is part of a collection of " + selItem.Collection.Count.ToString() + " items.";
            msg += "\nThis is contained in the following application: " + selItem.DTE.Name;
        }
        MessageBox.Show(msg);
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

.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.

See Also

Reference

SelectedItem Interface

SelectedItem Members

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples