Gives back the Ellipsoid used by the given datum.
[Visual Basic .NET] Public Function GetDatumEllipsoid ( _ ByVal vDatum As Object _ ) As String
[C#] public string GetDatumEllipsoid ( object vDatum );
[C++]
HRESULT GetDatumEllipsoid(
VARIANT vDatum,
BSTR* Ellipsoid
);
[C++]Parameters
vDatum [in] vDatum is a parameter of type VARIANT Ellipsoid [out, retval] Ellipsoid is a parameter of type BSTR
Product Availability
Available with ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Desktop.
Description
The value passed into the vDatum parameter can either be a string representing the name of the datum, or a long representing the index of the datum in the coordinate tool's datum list. Both the datum names and the indices can be determined by using the ICoordinateTool::GetDatumList method.
Remarks
The following VB code snippet returns the ellipsoid that is used by the European 1979 datum.
Dim pCoordTool As ICoordinateTool
Dim sEllipsoid As String
Set pCoordTool = New CoordinateTool
sEllipsoid = pCoordTool.GetDatumEllipsoid("European 1979 (EUS)")
Debug.Print sEllipsoid