The geometry area field.

[Visual Basic 6.0]
Property AreaField As IField

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public ReadOnly Property AreaField As IField

[C#]
public IField AreaField {get;}

[Java]
public IField getAreaField()
throws
    IOException,
    AutomationException

[C++]
HRESULT get_AreaField(
  IField** Field
);

Product Availability

Remarks

This read-only property returns the name of the field which records the area of each feature. Only feature classes that have a ShapeType of esriGeometryPolygon have an Area field.

A null pointer will be returned if:

• the feature class does not have a shape type of esriGeometryPolygon
• the underlying database does not maintain an area field
• the feature class is a shapefile or CAD data 
  
   

See Also

IFeatureClass Interface | IField Interface | IFields Interface

Example

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