public IEnumerable<MapItem> Descendants { get; }

Public ReadOnly Property Descendants As IEnumerable(Of MapItem)

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

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