Anyone still having problems with this in VB.Net? I ran on to the same problem with version 1.4 as well as 1.5. I wrote a C# DLL with some "Get Geometry" functions to deal with all the buffer types. One point to note is that when the new geometry is returned, it still shows as a ShapeBuffer in debugging, but you can still access the PointShapeBuffer, MultiPointShapeBuffer, MultiPartShapeBuffer, MultiPatchShapeBuffer properties regardless. I hope this helps someone: Usage: Imports ESRIFileGDB.ConvertShapeBuffer . . . Dim geometry As New PointShapeBuffer = GetPointGeometry(row) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESRIFileGDB.cs =============================== using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Esri.FileGDB; namespace ESRIFileGDB { public class ConvertShapeBuffer { public ConvertShapeBuffer() { } public static PointShapeBuffer GetPointGeometry(ref Esri.FileGDB.Row shapeRow) { try { PointShapeBuffer pointGeometry = shapeRow.GetGeometry(); return pointGeometry; } catch { return null; } } public static MultiPointShapeBuffer GetMultiPointGeometry(ref Esri.FileGDB.Row shapeRow) { try { MultiPointShapeBuffer multipointGeometry = shapeRow.GetGeometry(); return multipointGeometry; } catch { return null; } } public static MultiPatchShapeBuffer GetMultiPatchGeometry(ref Esri.FileGDB.Row shapeRow) { try { MultiPatchShapeBuffer patchGeometry = shapeRow.GetGeometry(); return patchGeometry; } catch { return null; } } public static MultiPartShapeBuffer GetMultiPartGeometry(ref Esri.FileGDB.Row shapeRow) { try { MultiPartShapeBuffer multipartGeometry = shapeRow.GetGeometry(); return multipartGeometry; } catch { return null; } } } } ===========================================================
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