How to Read a Shapefile using C#?

Question

I am new to ArcGIS and trying a few things..

1. I'm trying to read shape file(which is supply as an input) using c# and

2. I want to generate a .pdf file which contains underlying metadata information (similar to the Identify tool) ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try SharpMap if you want to use LGPL code.

Answer 2

This is one nice library Easy Gis DotNet.

Answer 3

There are multiple options to use when reading Shapefile with C#, SharpMap and EasyGIS.Net are already mentioned. DotSpatial is another opensource project. Here is a tutorial link as well.

With respect to performance, personally I have found DotSpatial doing much better than SharpMap with large dataset, and DotSpatial raster support is also excellent.

Answer 4

Following are links which will be helpful for you..

Check out the sample VB code ( You can convert VB code to c# using converter)

ESRI forums link1 link2 + codingcramp blog

Let us know if you have any problem.. thanks