[Visual Basic 6.0]
  On Error GoTo MyError
    ' Set up to read the input data file.  Where the file
    ' format is a comma delimited list of point coordinates.
    Dim FileSystem, FileHandle, retstring, position
    Set FileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set FileHandle = FileSystem.OpenTextFile("D:\NGTest-VB\LoadPoints\pointsource.txt", 1, False)
    
    ' Connect to SDE
    Dim pPropset As IPropertySet
    Set pPropset = New PropertySet
    Dim pFact As IWorkspaceFactory
    Dim pWorkspace As IWorkspace
    With pPropset
        .SetProperty "SERVER", "yourserver"
        .SetProperty "INSTANCE", "5253"
        .SetProperty "DATABASE", "sdedata"
        .SetProperty "USER", "test"
        .SetProperty "PASSWORD", "test"
        .SetProperty "VERSION", "SDE.DEFAULT"
    End With
    
    ' Open existing target featureclass
    Set pFact = New SdeWorkspaceFactory
    Set pWorkspace = pFact.Open(pPropset, Me.hWnd)
    
    Dim pFeatureWorkspace As IFeatureWorkspace
    Set pFeatureWorkspace = pWorkspace
'    Dim pFeatureDataset As IFeatureDataset
'    Set pFeatureDataset = pFeatureWorkspace.OpenFeatureDataset("Calibrate")
    
    Dim pFeatureClass As IFeatureClass
    Set pFeatureClass = pFeatureWorkspace.OpenFeatureClass("defectos2")
    Dim pInsertCursor As IFeatureCursor
    Set pInsertCursor = pFeatureClass.Insert(True)
    Dim pInsertFeatureBuffer As IFeatureBuffer
    Set pInsertFeatureBuffer = pFeatureClass.CreateFeatureBuffer
    ' Set schema lock and switch to Load Only Mode
    Dim pSchLock As ISchemaLock
    Set pSchLock = pFeatureClass
    pSchLock.ChangeSchemaLock (esriExclusiveSchemaLock)
    Dim pFCLoad As IFeatureClassLoad
    Set pFCLoad = pFeatureClass
    pFCLoad.LoadOnlyMode = True
    ' Load new point features
    Dim pPoint As IPoint
    Set pPoint = New Point
    
    Do While FileHandle.AtEndOfLine <> True
        retstring = FileHandle.ReadLine
        position = InStr(retstring, ",")
        pPoint.PutCoords Trim(Left$(retstring, position - 1)), Trim(Right$(retstring, Len(retstring) - position))
        Set pInsertFeatureBuffer.Shape = pPoint
        pInsertCursor.InsertFeature pInsertFeatureBuffer
    Loop
   
    pInsertCursor.Flush
      
    ' Clean up
    pSchLock.ChangeSchemaLock (esriSharedchemaLock)
    pFCLoad.LoadOnlyMode = False
    FileHandle.Close
    
    ' Message finished
    MsgBox "Load Finished"
    
MyError:
  If Err.Number <> 0 Then
    MsgBox Err.Description
    pSchLock.ChangeSchemaLock (esriSharedchemaLock)
    pFCLoad.LoadOnlyMode = False
  End If

[C#]

    //IFeatureClassLoad Example
    //IWorkspace is expected to be either an ArcSDE or File Geodatabase workspace.
    // e.g., pathOfTextFile = "C:\\data\\pointsource.txt"
    //       nameOfTargetFeatureClass  = "myPointFC"
    //on ArcSDE use ISqlSyntax::QualifyTableName for fully qualified table names.
    public void IFeatureClassLoad_Example(IWorkspace workspace, string nameOfTargetFeatureClass, string pathOfTextFile)
    {
        //open the feature class
        IFeatureWorkspace featureWorkspace = (IFeatureWorkspace)workspace;
        IFeatureClass featureClass = featureWorkspace.OpenFeatureClass(nameOfTargetFeatureClass);
        ISchemaLock schemaLock = (ISchemaLock)featureClass;
        IFeatureClassLoad featureClassLoad = (IFeatureClassLoad)featureClass;
        try
        {
            //create an insert cursor
            IFeatureCursor featureCursor = featureClass.Insert(true);
            IFeatureBuffer featureBuffer = featureClass.CreateFeatureBuffer();
            //set schema lock and switch to Load Only Mode
            schemaLock.ChangeSchemaLock(esriSchemaLock.esriExclusiveSchemaLock);
            featureClassLoad.LoadOnlyMode = true;
            //Load new point features
            ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.IPoint point = new ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.PointClass();
            //setup to read the input data file. where the file format
            //is a comma delimited list of point coordinates.
            // Create an instance of StreamReader to read from a file.
            // The using statement also closes the StreamReader.
            using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(pathOfTextFile))
            {
                String line; //used to hold the line of text from file
                int position; //used to determine the position of the comma
                // Read and display lines from the file until the end of 
                // the file is reached.
                while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
                {
                    position = line.IndexOf(",");
                    point.PutCoords(Convert.ToDouble(line.Substring(0, position)), Convert.ToDouble(line.Substring(position + 1)));
                    featureBuffer.Shape = point;
                    featureCursor.InsertFeature(featureBuffer);
                }
            }
            featureCursor.Flush();
            //clean up
            schemaLock.ChangeSchemaLock(esriSchemaLock.esriSharedSchemaLock);
            featureClassLoad.LoadOnlyMode = false;
            Console.WriteLine("Load finished");
            System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(featureCursor);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            //error occured
            schemaLock.ChangeSchemaLock(esriSchemaLock.esriSharedSchemaLock);
            featureClassLoad.LoadOnlyMode = false;
            Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        }
    }

[Visual Basic .NET, C++]
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