ArcObjects Library Reference (GeoDatabase)

IFeature Interface

Provides access to members that return and set properties of a feature.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Members

		Description
	Class	The Object Class for the row.
	Delete	Deletes the row.
	Extent	The extent of the feature.
	FeatureType	The type of the feature.
	Fields	The fields Collection for this row buffer.
	HasOID	Indicates if the row has an OID.
	OID	The OID for the row.
	Shape	A reference to the default shape for the feature.
	ShapeCopy	A cloned copy of the default shape for the feature.
	Store	Stores the row.
	Table	The Table for the row.
	Value	The value of the field with the specified index.

Inherited Interfaces

Interfaces	Description
IObject	Provides access to the class the row belongs to.
IRow	Provides access to members that return information about the row, the table the row belongs to and storing and deleting the row.
IRowBuffer	Provides access to members used for getting and modifying a rows values and for getting the fields in the row.

CoClasses that implement IFeature

CoClasses and Classes	Description
AnnotationFeature (esriCarto)	An ESRI annotation feature.
ComplexEdgeFeature	ESRI Complex edge geometric network feature object.
ComplexJunctionFeature	ESRI Complex junction geometric network feature.
CoverageAnnotationFeature	ESRI Coverage Annotation Feature.
DimensionFeature (esriCarto)	ESRI Dimension Feature class.
Feature	ESRI Feature.
GeocodedFeature (esriLocation)	A feature created by a locator.
NALocationFeature (esriNetworkAnalyst)	A network location which can be used like a feature or a row.
NALocationRangesFeature (esriNetworkAnalyst)	A container of NALocationRanges which can be used like a feature or a row.
NATraversalResultElement (esriNetworkAnalyst)	An individual element in a traversal result.
RasterCatalogItem	Raster Catalog Feature Class.
RelQueryRow	A row defined by a join of the datasets in a RelQueryTable.
SchematicInMemoryFeatureLink (esriSchematic)	Schematic in memory feature link object.
SchematicInMemoryFeatureNode (esriSchematic)	Schematic in memory feature node object.
SchematicInMemoryFeatureNodeOnLink (esriSchematic)	Schematic in memory feature node on link object.
SchematicInMemoryFeatureSubLink (esriSchematic)	Schematic in memory feature sublink object.
SchematicLink (esriSchematic)	A schematic link object.
SchematicNode (esriSchematic)	A schematic node object.
SchematicNodeOnLink (esriSchematic)	A schematic node-on-link object.
SchematicSubLink (esriSchematic)	A schematic sublink object.
SimpleEdgeFeature	ESRI Geometric network simple edge feature object.
SimpleJunctionFeature	ESRI Geometric network simple junction feature object.
TemporalFeature (esriTrackingAnalyst)	Controls properties of the Temporal Feature object.
TopologyErrorFeature	ESRI Topology Error Feature object.

Remarks

Features are spatial Objects. They are contained in a feature class in the same way that a row is contained in a table, and an object is contained in an object class. A feature has an associated shape, the type of which is defined by the feature class. The possible shape objects are Point, Multipoint, Multipatch, Polyline, and Polygon - these are all objects in the Geometry library. For more details, see the IGeometryDef interface.

One thing to note is that all features still have the same core geometry types of point, multipoint, polyline, polygon and multipatch; an example of this is the annotation feature, whose geometry type is polygon - this represents the envelope of the text element.

The IFeature interface extends the IObject and IRow interfaces, and as such, the documentation for those interfaces applies to this interface. The additional functionality relates to the features' shapes, accessed and set through the Shape property. This can be much more convenient than the alternative of using the Value property, since you dont have to determine the index of the shape field. The Shape property is the main link in ArcObjects between the geometry and geodatabase object models.

The ShapeCopy property is a cloned copy of the features Shape. When modifying the geometry of a feature or a set of features, use the ShapeCopy property to obtain a copy of the feature's geometry, perform the modification on the geometries, then apply the modifications by setting the geometry to the Shape property.