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**Winwaed** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-11-2007

According to the documentation, I should be able to find a shape by its name using the Shapes collection's Item method.
I've done this in the past with VB6, but it crashes with C#.

Has anyone managed to find a shape without iterating through the entire collection? (I see in another thread, Wilfried iterates through the collection looking for a matching name).

Eg. something like:

MapPoint.Shape myShape = myMap.Shapes.Item("fred");

Perhaps I'm seeing a variant / string problem?

Richard

**Wilfried** · #2 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007

Hi Richard,

Almost, but it is get_Item and it has to be a ref to the name like this:

Code:

object o = theNameToFind;
Shape s = MP.ActiveMap.Shapes.get_Item(ref o);

**Winwaed** · #3 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007

Wilfried,

That's what I had originally - but it started to throw an exception!

Is a normal C# string okay, or does it have to be cast as something else? (I'm thinking of the dozen or so different string types found on Windows C++!)

Richard

**Wilfried** · #4 (**permalink**) 04-13-2007

Hi Richard,

Normal string. I just tryed this in a test project and it works. I paste it here:

Code:

Shape s = MP.ActiveMap.Shapes.AddShape(GeoAutoShapeType.geoShapeRadius, loc, dia, dia);
s.Name = "wilfried";
object o = s.Name;
s = MP.ActiveMap.Shapes.get_Item(ref o);
Console.WriteLine(s.Name);

**Winwaed** · #5 (**permalink**) 04-15-2007

Hmmm....
I'll have another look at my code tomorrow.

Thanks Wilfried - although the above code doesn't rule out the possibility that the text is a "non-conventional" string - you copy from the name property into the object that you use as the parameter.

Richard

**Wilfried** · #6 (**permalink**) 04-17-2007

Hi Richard,

This is true. It is a conventional string, but there can be a big difference between this:

Code:

string name = "wilfried";
object o = name;
s = MP.ActiveMap.Shapes.get_Item(ref o);

and this:

Code:

object o = "wilfried";
s = MP.ActiveMap.Shapes.get_Item(ref o);

Because it is given by reference. So in the first case there is possible a copy of "wilfried" in memory where the address is hold by name. But in second case the pointer points to read only memory. So maybe that is the reason ? If of course the first one gives no exception and the second gives one.

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