Indicates if the layer is currently valid.

[Visual Basic 6.0]
Property Valid As Boolean

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public ReadOnly Property Valid As Boolean

[C#]
public bool Valid {get;}

[Java]
public boolean isValid()
throws
    IOException,
    AutomationException

[C++]
HRESULT get_Valid(
  VARIANT_BOOL* Valid
);

Product Availability

Remarks

The valid property indicates if the layer is currently valid.  Layers that reference feature classes are valid when they hold a reference to a valid feature class.  The property does not however validate the integrity of the feature classes reference to the database. Therefore, in rare situations if a datasource is removed after a layer is initialized, the layer will report itself as valid but query attempts to the data source will error due to the lack of underlying data.

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