IVsTextBuffer.GetLanguageServiceID Method

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03/11/2013

Returns the unique identifier of the language that is providing colorization and other attribute data to this buffer.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
Function GetLanguageServiceID ( _
    <OutAttribute> ByRef pguidLangService As Guid _
) As Integer

int GetLanguageServiceID(
    out Guid pguidLangService
)

int GetLanguageServiceID(
    [OutAttribute] Guid% pguidLangService
)

abstract GetLanguageServiceID : 
        pguidLangService:Guid byref -> int

function GetLanguageServiceID(
    pguidLangService : Guid
) : int

Parameters

pguidLangService
Type: System.Guid%
[out] Pointer to a unique identifier of the language service. Buffers without languages can return CLSID_NULL.

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 textmgr.idl:

HRESULT IVsTextBuffer::GetLanguageServiceID(
   [out] GUID *pguidLangService
);

This method might require considerable resources, depending upon the underlying implementation of the buffer. That is, it might be very difficult to calculate the size of the buffer if it is a virtual-line-oriented implementation as in Visual Basic.

.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.

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