ICategorizeProperties.GetCategoryName Method

Returns a BSTR containing the category name.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Function GetCategoryName ( _
    PROPCAT As Integer, _
    lcidCategory As UInteger, _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef pbstrName As String _
) As Integer

'Usage
Dim instance As ICategorizeProperties 
Dim PROPCAT As Integer 
Dim lcidCategory As UInteger 
Dim pbstrName As String 
Dim returnValue As Integer 

returnValue = instance.GetCategoryName(PROPCAT, _
    lcidCategory, pbstrName)

int GetCategoryName(
    int PROPCAT,
    uint lcidCategory,
    out string pbstrName
)

int GetCategoryName(
    [InAttribute] int PROPCAT, 
    [InAttribute] unsigned int lcidCategory, 
    [OutAttribute] String^% pbstrName
)

function GetCategoryName(
    PROPCAT : int, 
    lcidCategory : uint, 
    pbstrName : String
) : int

Parameters

• PROPCAT
  Type: System.Int32

  [in] Specifies the property category.

• lcidCategory
  Type: System.UInt32

• pbstrName
  Type: System.String%

  [out] Pointer to a string containing the category name.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32
If the method succeeds, it returns S_OK. If it fails, it returns an error code.

Remarks

COM Signature

From objext.idl:

HRESULT ICategorizeProperties::GetCategoryName(
   [in] PROPCAT propcat, 
   [in] LCID lcid, 
   [out] BSTR* pbstrName
);

The GetCategoryName method returns a BSTR containing the category name. There are 11 predefined property categories with negative values. You can define your own custom categories, but you must assign positive values to them. The predefined categories are:

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

ICategorizeProperties Interface

ICategorizeProperties Members

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop Namespace