Inside the Geodatabase : .NET

Application Developers Tuning Tip: Keeping Datasets Open

brentardenpierce — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:59:00 GMT

Opening a dataset such as a table or a feature class from a geodatabase can be an expensive operation. With this in mind, application developers should try to minimize the number of times they open datasets by following these patterns: Keep datasets from...(read more)

Using the ComReleaser to manage the lifetime of cursors in .NET

brentardenpierce — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:36:00 GMT

Geodatabase cursors should always be explicitly destroyed in a runtime environment that uses garbage collection. The rule of thumb is to always release a COM object as soon as the application is done using the reference. This is especially important with...(read more)

Object initializers and the Geodatabase API

JonMurphy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:33:00 GMT

This post was provided by geodatabase product engineer James MacKay A new approach to initializing objects was introduced at .NET 3.0: object initializers . These allow objects to be instantiated and initialized in a single line, provided the class has...(read more)

List of Useful Developer Samples

JonMurphy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:58:00 GMT

Last week I was in Palm Desert at the annual EGUG conference . While sitting in on a presentation I noticed that for a lot of the questions being asked, users were being directed to developer samples found online. I realized that while these samples are...(read more)

Three new How-To articles in Geodatabase SDK

brentardenpierce — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:00 GMT

For all geodatabase developers out there, we’ve added three new how-to articles to the online SDK: How to use edit sessions : The in’s and out’s of editing a geodatabase are explained in this article, and supported with several code examples. It includes...(read more)

.NET Team adds API Evaluator

brentardenpierce — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:00:00 GMT

A quick post today about a new tool that the .NET team developed. The API evaluator scans your .NET code and generates a complete set of API usage statistics. This is pretty cool if you want to see what APIs are being used most frequently in your applications....(read more)

Customizing Table Sorting in the Geodatabase

brentardenpierce — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:59:00 GMT

This post was written by James MacKay, a product engineer on the geodatabase team who also played the leading role in the "Programming with the geodatabase API" sessions at this years user conference. In ArcGIS there are a number of different ways a column...(read more)

Developer Tips - Using geodatabase methods with conformant array parameters in .NET and Java

jona4440 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:19:00 GMT

This post was written by geodatabase Product Engineer James MacKay. James works on the geodatabase development team and is responsible for a lot of the geodatabase SDK that is generated. There are several methods in the Geodatabase API that use conformant...(read more)