ModelElement::CanMerge Method (ProtoElementBase^, ElementGroupPrototype^)

 

Verifies whether a source element can be added to this element.

Namespace:   Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.12.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.12.0.dll)

protected:
virtual bool CanMerge(
	ProtoElementBase^ rootElement,
	ElementGroupPrototype^ elementGroupPrototype
)

Parameters

rootElement
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling::ProtoElementBase^

The root ProtoElement representing a source element. If this is null, the ElementGroupPrototype does not contain any ProtoElements and the code should inspect the ElementGroupPrototype context information.

elementGroupPrototype
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling::ElementGroupPrototype^

The ElementGroupPrototype that contains the root ProtoElement.

Return Value

Type: System::Boolean

true if the source element represented by the ProtoElement can be added to this target element; otherwise, false.

Accept merges of extensions, or any supplementary elements that extensions are prepared to merge

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