SaveItemDialog does not return the full name of a featureclass in a SDE database

Question

I am using the SaveItemDialog to select an output featureclass. The featureclass may or may not exist, if it exists, I will delete it

The problem is that when I browse to an enterprise geodatabase and select an existing featureclass, the Name field of the dialog will correctly show the name as {database}.{schema}.{name}, but the result of the dialog (saveDialog.FilePath) will only have {database}.{schema} , without the selected name

How can I fix this?

BerendVeldkamp · Answer

Where exactly is that Name property documented? I don't see it here: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/sdk/api-reference/topic9001.html, and nor do I see it in the debugger.

BTW, if nothing is broken, then why does the dialog behave differently for a File Geodatabase? Because in that case, it does return the name of the featureclass in the FilePath property.

Robert_LeClair · Answer

This is a known quirk of the ArcGIS Pro SDK for .NET when working with enterprise geodatabases (SDE connections).

So what you're seeing is when you use SaveItemDialog against an eGDB, the UI shows correctly - {database}.{schema}.{featureclass} but saveDialog.FilePath only returns {connection_path}\{database}.{schema}.  That's because in eGDB's, the dialog treats the container as the path and the feature class name is stored separately, not appended to FilePath.  So nothing is broken - it's just split across properties.

The fix is combine saveDialog.FilePath and saveDialog.Name