ValidationMessage Class

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04/26/2013

Represents a validation message that states an error, a warning, or a message.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Object
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Validation.ValidationMessage
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Shell.TaskValidationMessage

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Validation
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.11.0 (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.11.0.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class ValidationMessage

public class ValidationMessage

public ref class ValidationMessage

type ValidationMessage =  class end

public class ValidationMessage

The ValidationMessage type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	ValidationMessage(ValidationContext, String)	Initializes a new instance of the ValidationMessage class using a context and a description for the message.
	ValidationMessage(ValidationContext, String, Int32, Int32)	Initializes a new instance of the ValidationMessage class using a context, a description, a line number, and a column number for the message.
	ValidationMessage(ValidationContext, String, String, ViolationType)	Initializes a new instance of the ValidationMessage class using a context, a description, a code, and a violation type for the message.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	Code	Gets the code for the message.
	Column	Gets the column in a line of text where the error occurs.
	Context	Gets the context information for a validation message.
	Description	Gets the description for a validation message.
	File	Gets the name of a referenced file.
	HelpKeyword	Gets or sets the keyword to search for in the Help for Visual Studio.
	Line	Gets the line number in the file to which the error or the warning refers.
	ReferencedFiles	Gets the names of files to which the ValidationMessage refers.
	ReferencedModelElements	Gets the model elements that are referenced by this message.
	Type	Gets the type of validation message.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Checks to see whether the validation message is equal to another object. (Overrides Object.Equals(Object).)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Gets an identifier for a ValidationMessage. (Overrides Object.GetHashCode.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Identifies the validation message. (Overrides Object.ToString.)
	UpdateFileReferences(IEnumerable<String>)	Contains the names of files to update from a list of zero or more file names.
	UpdateFileReferences(String)	Contains the name of the file to update.
	UpdateReferencedModelElements	Updates the referenced model elements.

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Remarks

A ValidationMessage is created in a user-defined validation method. The actual creation is completed through the virtual ValidationContext.ConstructValidationMessage method.

This class represents validation messages that the ValidationMessageObserver class can obtain.

For more information, see Validation in a Domain-Specific Language.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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