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Hierarchies and Selection

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When you customize Visual Studio, you should understand how Visual Studio handles hierarchies such as projects and how it uses selection context to determine what is displayed to the user. This section discusses the concepts of Visual Studio hierarchies and selection.

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Hierarchies in Visual Studio
Describes project hierarchies and the general concept of hierarchies.

Selection and Currency in the IDE
Describes how the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) maintains information about the user's currently active objects and lets VSPackages track currency.

Selection Context Objects
Discusses the model for how you can determine the user's selection context focus on a window.

Feedback to the User
Discusses how the available functionality in Visual Studio is based on the user's current selection context and overall IDE context.

Architecture
Provides detailed technical information about project types.