topic How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666972#M17895 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have this issue, programmatically i have a feature class get it from a map document, and i want to know if this featureclass comes from a shapefile or a SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>any suggestion is welcome.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 13:03:44 GMT Cristian_Galindo 2011-05-24T13:03:44Z How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666972#M17895 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have this issue, programmatically i have a feature class get it from a map document, and i want to know if this featureclass comes from a shapefile or a SDE database.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>any suggestion is welcome.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 13:03:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666972#M17895 Cristian_Galindo 2011-05-24T13:03:44Z Re: How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666973#M17896 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Cristian,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Use the </SPAN><STRONG>IFeatureLayer2</STRONG><SPAN> Interface it has a property called </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">DataSourceType</SPAN><SPAN> which returns a string that describes the source type.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Duncan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 13:18:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666973#M17896 DuncanHornby 2011-05-24T13:18:43Z Re: How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666974#M17897 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The only drawback to using the DataSourceType is that it returns a string in the localized language. Take a look at </SPAN><A href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/26919-AO-How-to-determine-the-file-format-of-a-feature-class-%28shapefile-GDB-CAD-etc.%29?p=94901#post94901">this post</A><SPAN> for code to get a language-independent identification of what type it is.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 13:31:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666974#M17897 KenBuja 2011-05-24T13:31:02Z Re: How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666975#M17898 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks for your reply, I alsofound a way to do it:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>using the esriWorkspaceType.esriFileSystemWorkspace i can know if there is a system file or a geoDB.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Again Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 May 2011 17:30:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/how-to-know-if-a-featureclass-is-from-a-shapefile/m-p/666975#M17898 Cristian_Galindo 2011-05-26T17:30:25Z