topic How to open a Mobile Geodatabase? in ArcGIS Pro SDK Questions

How to open a Mobile Geodatabase?

KirkKuykendall1 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:29:58 GMT

Hi -

I get an exception trying to open a mobile geodatabase.

Is there a snippet for this somewhere?

Thanks, Kirk

public static void Test3() { var mgdbPath = @"D:\nhd_data\Mobile2.geodatabase"; if (!File.Exists(mgdbPath)) throw new FileNotFoundException(mgdbPath); var cn = new DatabaseConnectionProperties(EnterpriseDatabaseType.SQLite) { Database = mgdbPath //anything else to set?? }; using (var gdb = new Geodatabase(cn)) //exception here { var c = gdb.GetDefinitions<FeatureClassDefinition>().Count(); Debug.Print($"count {c}"); } }

Re: How to open a Mobile Geodatabase?

RichRuh — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:48:35 GMT

Hi Kirk,

The Pro SDK doesn't yet support directly opening mobile geodatabases. You can get a feature class or table that comes from a mobile geodatabase by getting it from the map, and you can open a SQLite database as a Database using Database(SQLiteConnectionPath), but that doesn't give you the same capabilities.

We're hoping to get this into the next release of Pro.

Sorry I cannot help more,

--Rich

Re: How to open a Mobile Geodatabase?

RichRuh — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:41:22 GMT

I just realized that I never went back and updated this thread.

We added support for mobile geodatabases in Pro 3.0, which shipped in June 2022. Instead of using DatabaseConnectionProperties as shown in Kirk's code, you should use the MobileGeodatabaseConnectionPath class.

--Rich