Use the SelectPos property to select items by position. Use the SelectItem property to select an item giving its handle. The SelectPos property selects an item giving its general position. The ItemPosition property gives the relative position, or the position of the item in the child items collection.

The following VB sample selects the first item in the control:

Tree1.Items.SelectPos = 0

The following VB sample selects first two items:

Tree1.Items.SelectPos = Array(0, 1)

The following C++ sample selects the first item in the control:

m_tree.GetItems().SetSelectPos( COleVariant( long(0) ) );

The following VB.NET sample selects the first item in the control:

With AxTree1.Items
    .SelectPos = 0
End With

The following C# sample selects the first item in the control:

axTree1.Items.SelectPos = 0;

The following VFP sample selects the first item in the control:

with thisform.Tree1.Items
	.SelectPos = 0
endwith