ArcCatalog Filter - Quick Find add-in

Question

I am trying to re-create the ArcCatalog Quick Find Tool (http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14236) as an add-in for ArcCatalog 10 using the referenced arcscripts code as a base. I can get ArcCatalog to filter based upon the IGxObjectFilter interface...if I specify GXFilterFeatureClasses, that is all that I get is FeatureClasses. What I would like to do is specify some text characters (ie "Lake") and have the ArcCatalog Contents view filtered to only show me featureclasses that contain the characters "lake" somewhere in the name.

Is it possible to do this as an add-in??

AWarren · Answer

I re-wrote a variation of the original tool in .NET and posted it here:

awarrencaslys/QuickFind.Net · GitHub

JeffJacobson · Answer

Your closing CODE tag is missing the "C".

BinChen1 · Answer

For 10.1 or above, you can implement IGxObjectFilter using C#, it's much easier than the old VB.

You can filter the object by name, code looks something like:
public bool CanDisplayObject(IGxObject @object)
{
    if (@object == null) return false;

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_filter) || _filter.Trim() == "") return true;

return Regex.IsMatch(@object.Name, _filter, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
}[/ODE]

This is much powerful by using regex than the old VB one.