EditPoint.LineLength Property

Gets the number of characters in a line.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property LineLength As Integer

int LineLength { get; }

property int LineLength {
    int get ();
}

abstract LineLength : int with get

function get LineLength () : int

Property Value

Type: System.Int32
The number of characters in a line containing the EditPoint object, excluding the new line character.

Remarks

Character numbering begins at one.

Examples

Sub LineLengthExample(ByVal dte As DTE2)

    ' Create a new text file.
    dte.ItemOperations.NewFile()

    ' Create an EditPoint at the start of the new document.
    Dim doc As TextDocument = _
        CType(dte.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument"), TextDocument)
    Dim point As EditPoint = doc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
    Dim i As Integer

    ' Insert 10 lines of text.
    For i = 1 To 10
        point.Insert("This is a test." & vbCrLf)
    Next

    point.StartOfDocument()

    ' Display EditPoint properties.
    MsgBox( _
        "AbsoluteCharOffset: " & point.AbsoluteCharOffset & vbCrLf & _
        "LineCharOffset: " & point.LineCharOffset & vbCrLf & _
        "DisplayColumn: " & point.DisplayColumn & vbCrLf & _
        "AtEndOfDocument: " & point.AtEndOfDocument & vbCrLf & _
        "AtEndOfLine: " & point.AtEndOfLine & vbCrLf & _
        "AtStartOfDocument: " & point.AtStartOfDocument & vbCrLf & _
        "AtStartOfLine: " & point.AtStartOfLine & vbCrLf & _
        "LineLength: " & point.LineLength)

End Sub

public void LineLengthExample(DTE2 dte)
{
    // Create a new text file.
    dte.ItemOperations.NewFile(@"General\Text File", "", 
        Constants.vsViewKindPrimary);

    // Create an EditPoint at the start of the new document.
    TextDocument doc = 
        (TextDocument)dte.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument");
    EditPoint point = doc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint();

    // Insert 10 lines of text.
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; ++i)
        point.Insert("This is a test.\n");

    point.StartOfDocument();

    // Display EditPoint properties.
    MessageBox.Show(
        "AbsoluteCharOffset: " + point.AbsoluteCharOffset + "\n" +
        "LineCharOffset: " + point.LineCharOffset + "\n" + 
        "AtEndOfDocument: " + point.AtEndOfDocument + "\n" +
        "AtEndOfLine: " + point.AtEndOfLine + "\n" +
        "AtStartOfDocument: " + point.AtStartOfDocument + "\n" +
        "AtStartOfLine: " + point.AtStartOfLine + "\n" +
        "LineLength: " + point.LineLength);
}

.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

EditPoint Interface

EnvDTE Namespace

Other Resources

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