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Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

RandyHauser — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:00:22 GMT

With Arc10 and VS2008 / VB.net, I'm getting the following error:

"(object) is not accessible in this context because it is 'Friend'"

for esriUnits and tagRECT.

Any ideas why they are inaccessible, especially constants like esriUnits?

Re: Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

RandyHauser — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:02:29 GMT

With Arc10 and VS2008 / VB.net, I'm getting the following error:

"(object) is not accessible in this context because it is 'Friend'"

for esriUnits and tagRECT.

Any ideas why they are inaccessible, especially constants like esriUnits?

Evidently they need to be called as a full reference:

ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.esriUnits
ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem.esriUnits.esriInches

..etc

Re: Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

KentRothrock — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:31:05 GMT

Thanks for the post Marc. That helped me out.

Re: Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

JasonTipton — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:01:07 GMT

The reason that you have to call the full name is that the namespace isn't imported. Go to Properties>References and check the appropriate namespace

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Objects not accessible because they are "Friends"

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