ITextSelection Interface

Represents the selected text in an ITextView.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Interface ITextSelection

public interface ITextSelection

public interface class ITextSelection

type ITextSelection =  interface end

public interface ITextSelection

The ITextSelection type exposes the following members.

	Name	Description
	ActivationTracksFocus	Determines whether IsActive should track when the ITextView gains and loses aggregate focus. The default is true.
	ActivePoint	Gets the active point of the selection.
	AnchorPoint	Gets the anchor point of the selection.
	End	Gets the end point of the selection.
	IsActive	Whether or not the selection is active.
	IsEmpty	Determines whether the selection is zero length.
	IsReversed	Determines whether the active point is Span.Start and the anchor point is Span.End.
	Mode	Gets or sets the selection mode.
	SelectedSpans	The currently-selected spans.
	Start	Gets the start point of the selection.
	StreamSelectionSpan	Gets the current selection as if it were a stream selection, regardless of the current selection mode.
	TextView	Gets the text view to which this selection belongs.
	VirtualSelectedSpans	The currently-selected spans, as VirtualSnapshotSpan objects.

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	Name	Description
	Clear	Makes the selection zero length, with a start and end position at the logical end of the current selection.
	GetSelectionOnTextViewLine	Get the selection on the specified ITextViewLine.
	Select(SnapshotSpan, Boolean)	Selects the text in the specified selection span.
	Select(VirtualSnapshotPoint, VirtualSnapshotPoint)	Selects the text between the two VirtualSnapshotPoint objects.

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	Name	Description
	SelectionChanged	Occurs when Select or Clear are called, as well as when the selection is empty and the caret is moved. The sender of the event is this ITextSelection.

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