'Enterprise architect : C# add-in current selected item tagged value

I have own profile in EA and i can give a own note element with a specific tag value. My problem is, that i want select some note in project and change tag value through add-in. How can i get current selected element ?

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Solution 1:[1]

You can use 

Repository.GetContextObject()

to get the currently selected Object.
To get the type of the object, use Repository.GetContextItemType()

you can then assign an EA.Element type to the object returned by Repository.GetContextObject()

 private void getSelectedElement(EA.Repository Rep)
            {
                EA.Element ele;
                switch(Rep.GetContextItemType())
                {
                    case EA.ObjectType.otElement:
                        {
                            ele = Rep.GetContextObject();
                            //Operations on the selected element
                            break;
                        }
                } 
            }

If you want to know all the possible types, see the documentation (This is for EA 13)

Solution 2:[2]

RTM: Respository.GetTreeSelectedObject

Solution 3:[3]

I use this function (VBScript). It combines answers from Mart10 and qwerty_so:

function getSelectedElement() ' as EA.Element
    
    dim sel
    
    set sel = Repository.GetContextObject
    if sel is nothing then sel = Repository.GetTreeSelectedObject()
    
    if sel.ObjectType <> otElement then set sel = nothing
    
    set getSelectedElement= sel
end function

Primarily it looks for the active Diagram's selection and secondarily in the Project Browser, finally filters for EA.Element-s .

NOTE: The purpose of method GetContextItemType() is not obvious to me, as each Object knows it's type by property ObjectType.

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Solution 1 Mart10
Solution 2 Funk Forty Niner
Solution 3

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