Gets a collection of the descendant MapItems contained by the KmlNode; IMapItemParent objects are added to the collection before their associated ChildItems.

Namespace:  ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Mapping

Assembly:  ESRI.ArcGISExplorer (in ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.dll) Version: 2.0.0.1500 (2.0.0.1500)

Syntax

C#
public IEnumerable<MapItem> Descendants { get; }
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public ReadOnly Property Descendants As IEnumerable(Of MapItem)

Field Value

An IEnumerable collection of all descendant MapItems in the KmlNode; only other KmlNodes may be descendants of KmlNode.

Remarks

This property enables you to retrieve a flattened collection of all items contained by the KmlNode. The signature takes a derived MapItem Type for consistency with the simlar property implemented on other types of MapItem; however only other KmlNodes may be descendants of KmlNode.

Use this property if you need to recurse all items in the KmlNode, including those that are not direct children of the KmlNode. In this respect, the Descendants property differs from KmlNode.ChildItems that only returns a collection of the KmlNodes immediate children.

The order of the items in the returned collection is different to the order of items in the DescendantsBottomUp collection. Both properties return the same number of items but Descendants returns a collection where IMapItemParent objects are added before their associated ChildItems. Conversely using the DescendantsBottomUp property will return a collection where IMapItemParent objects are added after their associated ChildItems.

Version Information: This property is supported from version 2.0.0.1500.

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