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I have a simple ArcMap Add-in that displays all featureclass names in a database inside of a ListBox. If I select a name or multiple names in the listbox, how can I drag and drop it in ArcMap? Just to give a quick summary, the purpose of this add-in is because the database has encrypted names and I have to show the "friendly names" in the ListBox control so I will use a special refrence table in SQL to populate the listbox with the friendly names.

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  • Encrypted names? Can you give an example?
    – blah238
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 19:48
  • @blah238 sorry I meant ArcMap not Catalog. I've corrected my question and tags.
    – DaBears
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 19:56
  • What? That wasn't my question at all. What do you mean by "encrypted names"?
    – blah238
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 20:30
  • Wells Featureclass = G01P01L0023 in sde
    – DaBears
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 21:02
  • Well that's weird.
    – blah238
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 21:20

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I think you need to implement IGxObject and display your objects in a GxContentsView. See the Catalog and CatalogUI library overviews.

Another possibility might be to use the IDataObjectHelper. See Richie Carmichael's blog post on this topic.

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This is just an idea and an alternative to drag 'n' drop. It sounds like you have a list box on a form that is being populated with friendly names. I'm guessing these will be simply text entries? Instead of trying to drag 'n' drop why not have a button that when clicked reads the selected items (your table names) in the list box, connects to the workspace and loads them into the map?

I would image that would be easier to implement unless drag 'n' drop is specifically required?

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  • yes that approach does sound easier. if I were to use a button to load the layers into arcmap how do I get access to the activeview?
    – DaBears
    Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 14:01
  • In 10.1 VB .net it would be: Dim pMXDocument As IMxDocument pMXDocument = My.ArcMap.Document Dim pMap As IMap pMap = pMXDocument.FocusMap
    – Hornbydd
    Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 14:53
  • Thanks this worked for me and I was able to add layers from my addin to my arcmap session
    – DaBears
    Commented Feb 22, 2013 at 16:26

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