Ignore shape area/length fields

CarlosPiccirillo — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:56:58 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am displaying fields of a layer in a combo box and do not want to include the ESRI generated fields, OID, Shape_Area, etc.

I can easily pick out the OID and geometry fields by using the esriFieldType enumerator, but I cannot do the same for Shape_Area, Shape.Area, etc. because they are field type double and there might be other fields of the same type that I want to show.

I know I can exclude them if I get the name of each field but the shape area and length fields are called different things depending on the data type, Shape.Area, Shape_Area, Shape, etc. I am hoping there is a more elegant way of doing it. I am programming in C# but code in any language will work as I can convert it to what I need.

Thanks,
Carlos

 if (pLayerFields.get_Field(i).Type == esriFieldType.esriFieldTypeOID)

Re: Ignore shape area/length fields

NeilClemmons — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:30:48 GMT

The names of the special fields are given by the IFeatureClass interface properties AreaField, LengthField, OIDFieldName, and ShapeFieldName.

Re: Ignore shape area/length fields

CarlosPiccirillo — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:37:06 GMT

Thanks a lot Neil, that's exactly what I needed! Never used those properties before.

Carlos

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