get and object as implied selection by its handle?

[mehdi.Autodesk]

Hi professionals and thank you for follow this issue.
my question is: how is it possible to get and object as implied selection by its handle?

for example we generated a list of handles which we have in drawing (from database) and now we need to select or filter one cad element by its handle not by get selection from model space. (Vb.net or C# please)

[Jeff_M]

Does this help?
Database.GetObjectId(false, Hi, 0)

[mehdi.Autodesk]

Dear Jeff,

Thank you for your response.
I tried your suggestion as below

but i have this error for Pss type

[Jeff_M · Accepted solution]

The SetImpliedSeelction takes an ObjectIdCollection as it's argument. The following is close to what you will need, but I normally use c# so not sure of the syntax on VB

Dim id as ObjectId
id = Db.GetObjectId(False, Hi, 0)

Dim idColl as new ObjectIdCollection
idColl.Add(id)

ed.SetImpliedSelection(idColl)

Dim ss as SelectionSet = ed.SelectImplied().Value

But if what you are after is the selected object, there is no need to use the Set/Select Implied since you already have the ObjectId.

[mehdi.Autodesk]

Thank you Dr. Jeff,

your suggestion was solve the issue as you see below

and also very special thank from kean Walmsley  because of his useful posts :

Adding to the AutoCAD pickfirst set with .NET

Getting access to an entity from its handle in AutoCAD .NET

[Jeff_M]

Glad you got it figured out, even though I incorrectly remembered the type of object needed for the SetImpliedSelection...which is an array of ObjectIds.