topic Re: Support for FeatureService in ArcGIS API in ArcGIS Runtime SDK for WPF (Retired) Questions

Support for FeatureService in ArcGIS API

HumzaAkhtar — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 04:38:02 GMT

How to added a service whose URL ends with FeatureServer (FeatureService) to a map using API for WPF? Please note that I am not talking about FeatureLayers but FeatureService. I know that Feature Layers can be added using FeatureLayer class, but I donot see any class for FeatureService like we have for TiledMapServiceLayers.

Re: Support for FeatureService in ArcGIS API

MichaelBranscomb — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:28:33 GMT

Hi,

For visualizing data, you don't add a feature services directly - you add FeatureLayers, which reference a specific layer within the feature service.

Cheers

Mike

Re: Support for FeatureService in ArcGIS API

HumzaAkhtar — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:30:46 GMT

Yes, you are correct and thanks a lot for replying. But consider this scenario:

I have a feature service which has 3 feature layers in it, a point feature layer, a polyline feature layer and a polygon feature layer. If I am making a user application on WPF, I donot think that it will be a good user experience for the user when he sees three sub feature layers instead of one in his/her application and then they have to add all these feature layers one by one to see the whole feature service.

Thanks

Re: Support for FeatureService in ArcGIS API

MichaelBranscomb — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:34:57 GMT

Hi,

Because you are developing the application, it's really up to you how you expose feature services and featurelayers to users. You could for example create a server browser dialog from which the user picks a feature service end point. Programmatically you could then add the three individual feature layers exposed in the UI as a single layer in a table of contents or legend control. Or they could be nested within a GroupLayer.

Cheers

Mike