TextRange Interface
Represents a single, contiguous section of text in a text document.
Namespace: EnvDTE
Assembly: EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
<GuidAttribute("72767524-E3B3-43D0-BB46-BBE1D556A9FF")> _
Public Interface TextRange
'Usage
Dim instance As TextRange
[GuidAttribute("72767524-E3B3-43D0-BB46-BBE1D556A9FF")]
public interface TextRange
[GuidAttribute(L"72767524-E3B3-43D0-BB46-BBE1D556A9FF")]
public interface class TextRange
public interface TextRange
Remarks
The section of text is enclosed by a pair of EditPoint objects.
TextRange objects are used when you have regular expressions with tagged subexpressions. A collection of ranges is returned, one for each matched subexpression, and their properties are read-only.
For general text manipulation, it is recommended that you instead use objects such as TextSelection or EditPoint, because the TextSelection object relates directly to the selection visible on the screen. When the selection area changes, the object's coordinates change, and vice-versa. As a result, a text selection cannot be used to represent an arbitrary range of text without disrupting that text selection.
Examples
Sub TextRangeExample(ByVal dte As EnvDTE.DTE)
Dim objTxtSel As TextSelection
Dim colRanges As TextRanges
Dim objRange As TextRange
Dim objEP As EditPoint
objTxtSel = dte.ActiveDocument.Selection
colRanges = objTxtSel.TextRanges
For Each objRange In colRanges
objRange.StartPoint.Insert("/*")
objRange.EndPoint.Insert("*/")
Next
End Sub
public void TextRangeExample(_DTE dte)
{
TextSelection ts;
TextRanges trs;
ts = (TextSelection)dte.ActiveDocument.Selection;
trs = ts.TextRanges;
MessageBox.Show (trs.Count.ToString ());
foreach (TextRange tr in trs)
{
tr.StartPoint.Insert ("/*");
tr.EndPoint.Insert ("*/");
}
}