SelectedItem Object, SelectedItems Collection

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The SelectedItem object represents a selected project or project item.

The SelectedItems collection returns a collection of all SelectedItem objects.

Remarks

Use the SelectedItem object to get the project with the focus to provide context for an add-in.

A project always has a SelectedItems collection, even when there are no project items selected. For example, if the Project Explorer has focus and a project node is selected, there is one SelectedItem object. That selected item's Project property points to the selected project, and the ProjectItem property is Null.

When a file that is not a project item is selected in the alternate directory view, the SelectedItem.Info field provides the full path to the selected file. The Project and ProjectItem properties are set to Null.

For Visual J++, the following fields are also used:

• .Name   Display name for the item (for example, the name displayed in the Project Explorer)
  
  
• .Info(i)   Indexed property of additional information about the selected item. This is used when the alternate directory view is shown in the Project Explorer, and a file is selected that is not in the project. .Info(1) contains the full path to the file.
  
  
• .InfoCount   The number of strings in .Info. This is always 1 for Visual J++.