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ArcGIS By Example

By : Hussein Nasser
Book Image

ArcGIS By Example

By: Hussein Nasser

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
ArcGIS By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing and editing the excavation information


We have created some excavation features on the map; however, these are merely polygons and we need to extract useful information from them, and display and edit these excavations. For that, we will use the Excavation Editor tool to click on an excavation and display the Excavation Editor form with the excavation information. Then we will give the ability to edit this information. Follow these steps:

  1. If necessary, open Visual Studio Express in administrator mode; we need to do this since our project is actually writing to the registry this time, so it needs administrator permissions. To do that, right-click on Visual Studio and click on Run as administrator.

  2. Go to File, then click on Open Project, browse to the Yharnam project from C:\ArcGISByExample\yharnam\Code, and click on Open.

  3. Right-click on frmExcavationEditor.vb and click on View Code to view the class code.

  4. Add the ArcMapApplication property as shown in the following code so that we can...