ArcObjects Library Reference (GeoDatabase)

IFeatureCursor Interface

Provides access to members that hand out enumerated features, field collections and allows for the updating, deleting and inserting of features.

Product Availability

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

Members

		Description
	DeleteFeature	Delete the existing Feature in the database corresponding to the current position of the cursor.
	Fields	The fields Collection for this cursor.
	FindField	The index of the field with the specified name.
	Flush	Flush any outstanding buffered writes to the database.
	InsertFeature	Insert a new Feature into the database using the property values in the input buffer. The ID of the new Feature is returned.
	NextFeature	Advance the position of the cursor by one and return the Feature object at that position.
	UpdateFeature	Update the existing Feature in the database corresponding to the current position of the cursor.

CoClasses that implement IFeatureCursor

CoClasses and Classes	Description
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.

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