ICategorizeProperties::MapPropertyToCategory Method (Int32, Int32)

Visual Studio 2015

Returns the property category value for the specified property.

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

Syntax

C++

int MapPropertyToCategory(
	int dispid,
	[OutAttribute] int% ppropcat
)

Parameters

dispid: Type: System::Int32
[in] Specifies the dispatch ID of the property to be displayed.

ppropcat: Type: System::Int32
[out] Specifies a pointer to the property category.

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 objext.idl:

C++

HRESULT ICategorizeProperties::MapPropertyToCategory(
   [in] DISPID dispid, 
   [out] PROPCAT* ppropcat
);

The MapPropertyToCategory method returns the appropriate property category value for the specified property. There are 11 predefined property categories with negative values. You can define your own custom categories, but you must assign them positive values. The predefined categories are:

Category	Value
PROPCAT_Nil	-1
PROPCAT_Misc	-2
PROPCAT_Font	-3
PROPCAT_Position	-4
PROPCAT_Appearance	-5
PROPCAT_Behavior	-6
PROPCAT_Data	-7
PROPCAT_List	-8
PROPCAT_Text	-9
PROPCAT_Scale	-10
PROPCAT_DDE	-11