OLEObject.ClassID property (Visio)

Returns the class ID string of a shape that represents an ActiveX control or an embedded or linked OLE object. Read-only.

Syntax

expression. ClassID

expression A variable that represents an OLEObject object.

Return value

String

Remarks

The ClassID property raises an exception if the shape doesn't represent an ActiveX control or an OLE 2.0 embedded or linked object. A shape represents an ActiveX control or an OLE 2.0 embedded or linked object if the visTypeIsOLE2 bit (&H8000) is set in the value returned by Shape. ForeignType.

ClassID returns a string of the form:

{2287DC42-B167-11CE-88E9-002AFDDD917}

This identifies the application that services the object. It might, for example, identify an embedded object on a Microsoft Visio page as a Microsoft Excel object.

After using a shape's Object property to obtain an Automation interface on the object the shape represents, you might want to obtain the shape's ClassID or ProgID property to determine the methods and properties provided by the interface.

Example

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro shows how to get the OLEObjects collection of an active page and print the ClassID for each OLEObject object in the Immediate window. This example assumes that the active page has at least one OLE 2.0 embedded or linked object or an ActiveX control.

 
Public Sub ClassID_Example() 
 
 Dim intCounter As Integer 
 Dim vsoOLEObjects As Visio.OLEObjects 
 
 'Get the OLEObjects collection of the active page. 
 Set vsoOLEObjects = ActivePage.OLEObjects 
 
 'Step through the collection of OLEObjects on the page. 
 For intCounter = 1 To vsoOLEObjects.Count 
 Debug.Print vsoOLEObjects(intCounter).ClassID 
 Next intCounter 
 
End Sub

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