ICategorizeProperties.MapPropertyToCategory(Int32, Int32) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll

Assembly:: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop.dll

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Returns the property category value for the specified property.

public:
 int MapPropertyToCategory(int dispid, [Runtime::InteropServices::Out] int % ppropcat);

int MapPropertyToCategory(int dispid, [Runtime::InteropServices::Out] int & ppropcat);

public int MapPropertyToCategory (int dispid, out int ppropcat);

abstract member MapPropertyToCategory : int * int -> int

Public Function MapPropertyToCategory (dispid As Integer, ByRef ppropcat As Integer) As Integer

Parameters

dispid: Int32

[in] Specifies the dispatch ID of the property to be displayed.

ppropcat: Int32

[out] Specifies a pointer to the property category.

Returns

Int32

If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From objext.idl:

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

Applies to