Error Dotspatial featureset

Question

Writing code using C# and the DotSpatial library, with the following code:

FeatureSet fs = new FeatureSet(FeatureType.Polygon);
        fs = FeatureSet.Open(Application.StartupPath + "\\MapFile\\Land.shp");

I get this error message:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'DotSpatial.Data.IFeatureSet' to 'DotSpatial.Data.FeatureSet'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

Answer 1

Have you tried:

var featureSet = FeatureSet.Open(Application.StartupPath + "\\MapFile\\Land.shp")

DotSpatial loads shape files by default.

Answer 2

fs = (FeatureSet)FeatureSet.Open(Application.StartupPath + "\\MapFile\\Land.shp");