Provides access to members that hand out enumerated features, field collections and allows for the updating, deleting and inserting of features.
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Members
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DeleteFeature | Delete the existing Feature in the database corresponding to the current position of the cursor. |
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Fields | The fields Collection for this cursor. |
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FindField | The index of the field with the specified name. |
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Flush | Flush any outstanding buffered writes to the database. |
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InsertFeature | Insert a new Feature into the database using the property values in the input buffer. The ID of the new Feature is returned. |
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NextFeature | Advance the position of the cursor by one and return the Feature object at that position. |
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UpdateFeature | Update the existing Feature in the database corresponding to the current position of the cursor. |
CoClasses that implement IFeatureCursor
| CoClasses and Classes | Description |
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| FeatureCursor | Esri Feature Cursor object. |
| RelQueryCursor | A cursor that is opened from a RelQueryTable. |
| TemporalCursor (esriTrackingAnalyst) | Controls settings for the temporal cursor. |
Remarks
The IFeatureCursor interface provides access to a set of features in a feature class. It operates in the same way as ICursor, although it does not inherit from that interface. This saves you from having to use Query-Interface when dealing with features rather than rows.
Feature cursors can be used as an input to IFeatureCursorBuffer, which lets you spatially buffer the features by a distance.
You can also draw the features from a cursor on the display. For more information, see the IFeatureRenderer::Draw method.
When using cursors within an edit session, they should always be scoped to edit operations. In other words, a cursor should be created after an edit operation has begun and should not be used once that edit operation has been stopped or aborted.