Finds an object in the catalog tree given its full name. Returns a Variant containing an IGxObject or IEnumGxObject (if duplicate names were encountered), along with the number of objects found.
[Visual Basic .NET] Public Function GetObjectFromFullName ( _ ByVal FullName As String, _ ByRef numFound As Integer _ ) As Object
[C#] public object GetObjectFromFullName ( string FullName, ref int numFound );
Product Availability
Available with ArcGIS Desktop.
Remarks
An example of duplicate names (numFound > 1) is a CAD drawing. ArcCatalog represents a CAD drawing as two GxObjects - as a CAD drawing and as a CAD dataset.