VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION Enumeration

Specifies the element of an object browser item description text string.

Namespace:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop
Assembly:  Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Enumeration VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION
public enum VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION
public enum class VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION
type VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION
public enum VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION

Members

Member name Description
OBDS_MISC Specifies that the text is miscellaneous text added to the description.
OBDS_NAME Specifies that the text is the name of the object.
OBDS_PARAM Specifies that the text is a function parameter.
OBDS_TYPE Specifies that the text describes the object's or parameter's type.
OBDS_ATTRIBUTE Specifies that the text is a COM/ .NET attribute.
OBDS_ENDDECL Specifies the end of the declaration portion of the description text.
OBDS_COMMA Specifies that a comma is to be inserted.
OBDS_ENABLEHELP Call AddDescriptionText ( nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), OBDS_ENABLEHELP, null) to enable help on the list item. This will cause your ShowHelp method to be called when the user presses F1.
OBDS_ENABLEGOTOSOURCE Obsolete. Do not use.
OBDS_NOTIFYONLY Obsolete. Do not use.
OBDS_ENDDECLEXPECTHTML Obsolete. Do not use.

Remarks

When an object is selected in the object browser, a description of the object appears in the lower pane of the window. The description text is built through a series of calls to AddDescriptionText. The environment will call your FillDescription method for the object list item of interest. The call passes in an IVsObjectBrowserDescription2 interface. You make multiple calls to the methods in the passed in interface to build up the various sections of the description text. The sections are identified with elements of the VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION enumeration. The environment takes care of formatting the text based on the description section.

If an item is listed in the description pane as:

int MyFunction ( CSTRING &string, BOOLfMyFlag, MYTYPEmtValue )

   Member of Namespace1.CMyClass

   ==== This is a great function ===

The following relationships apply:

Description text

VSOBDESCRIPTIONSECTION element

Hyper Jump Specified

int

OBDS_TYPE

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

MyFunction

OBDS_NAME

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

(

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

CSTRING &

OBDS_TYPE

VSOBJECTINFO for CSTRING

string

OBDS_PARAM

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

BOOL

OBDS_TYPE

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

fMyFlag

OBDS_PARAM

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

MYTYPE

OBDS_TYPE

VSOBJECTINFO for MYTYPE

mtValue

OBDS_PARAM

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

)

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

OBDS_ENDDECL

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

\n  Member of

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

Namespace1

OBDS_NAME

VSOBJECTINFO for Namespace1

.

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

CMyClass

OBDS_NAME

VSOBJECTINFO for CMyClass

\n

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

==== This is a great function ===

OBDS_MISC

nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic)

COM Signature

From vsshell.idl:

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop Namespace