EditorFormatDefinition Class

Provides format information for a particular item.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Classification
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.Wpf (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.Wpf.dll)

'Declaration
Public MustInherit Class EditorFormatDefinition

public abstract class EditorFormatDefinition

public ref class EditorFormatDefinition abstract

[<AbstractClass>]
type EditorFormatDefinition =  class end

public abstract class EditorFormatDefinition

The EditorFormatDefinition type exposes the following members.

	Name	Description
	EditorFormatDefinition	Initializes a new instance of EditorFormatDefinition.

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	Name	Description
	BackgroundBrush	Gets or sets the background brush for this item.
	BackgroundColor	Gets or sets the background color for this item.
	BackgroundCustomizable	Determines whether the background of this format is customizable.
	DisplayName	Defines the string used when displaying this format definition to the user. This property is used only if the UserVisibleAttribute is set to true on this object's export.
	ForegroundBrush	Gets or sets the foreground brush for this item.
	ForegroundColor	Gets or sets the foreground color for this item.
	ForegroundCustomizable	Determines whether the foreground of this format is customizable.

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	Name	Description
	CreateResourceDictionary	Creates a ResourceDictionary from this definition.
	CreateResourceDictionaryFromDefinition	Creates a ResourceDictionary from this definition.
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from 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	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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	Name	Description
	BackgroundBrushId	Defines the string used to look up the background brush value in the ResourceDictionary.
	BackgroundColorId	Defines the string used to look up the background color value in the ResourceDictionary.
	ForegroundBrushId	Defines the string used to look up the foreground brush value in the ResourceDictionary.
	ForegroundColorId	Defines the string used to look up the foreground color value in the ResourceDictionary.

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This is a MEF component part, and should be exported as:

[Export(typeof(EditorFormatDefinition))]

Exporters must provide a NameAttribute. The attributes OrderAttribute, DisplayNameAttribute and UserVisibleAttribute are optional.

Consumers of this attribute may optionally ignore the foreground formatting information, the background information, or both.

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