Issue Basemap & IEnumLayer

AlexandraFairbarns

Afternoon everyone -
The following works great...

  Dim uid As ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.IUID = New ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.UIDClass   uid.Value = "{6CA416B1-E160-11D2-9F4E-00C04F6BC78E}" 'IDataLayer    Try     Dim enumLayer As ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IEnumLayer = map.Layers((CType(uid, ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.UID)), True) ' Explicit Cast     enumLayer.Reset()     Dim layer As ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.ILayer = enumLayer.Next     Do While Not (layer Is Nothing)         layer = enumLayer.Next()     Loop   Catch ex As System.Exception     'System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("No layers of type: " + uid.Value.ToString);   End Try 

Until you add a basemap (e.g. light grey canvas map)
Even though its "Reference" layer is not a data layer IEnumLayer is continually picking up the layer - so when you do layer = enumLayer.Next() you get this wonderful error:

System.InvalidCastException was caught
  Message=Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.ILayer2'.
This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with
IID '{599DEE2E-2182-4E54-8A86-725145C9D989}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

Has anyone else had similar difficulties?

Thank You
Alex

NeilClemmons_GISinc

Are you certain that the error is occurring on that line of code?  The error says it is unable to cast the object to ILayer2.  Nowhere in the code you posted are you attempting a cast to ILayer2 (only ILayer) so I don't see any way for that exception to be thrown.