How to know if a featureclass is from a shapefile

[Cristian_Galindo]

Hi.

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.

any suggestion is welcome.

[DuncanHornby]

Cristian,

Use the IFeatureLayer2 Interface it has a property called DataSourceType which returns a string that describes the source type.

Duncan

[KenBuja]

The only drawback to using the DataSourceType is that it returns a string in the localized language. Take a look at this post for code to get a language-independent identification of what type it is.

[Cristian_Galindo]

thanks for your reply, I alsofound a way to do it:

using the esriWorkspaceType.esriFileSystemWorkspace i can know if there is a system file or a geoDB.

Again Thanks