The default scratch workspace.

[Visual Basic 6.0]
Property DefaultScratchWorkspace As IWorkspace

[Visual Basic .NET]
Public ReadOnly Property DefaultScratchWorkspace As IWorkspace

[C#]
public IWorkspace DefaultScratchWorkspace {get;}

[Java]
public IWorkspace getDefaultScratchWorkspace()
throws
    IOException,
    AutomationException

[C++]
HRESULT get_DefaultScratchWorkspace(
  IWorkspace** Workspace
);

Product Availability

Remarks

IScratchWorkspaceFactory is used to create temporary personal geodatabases in the temp directory.  You can find this directory by looking at the %TEMP% environment variable.  The scratch personal geodatabase will have the name mx<number>.mdb where <number> is the global unique identifier that uniquely identifies the geodatabase.

The first time IScratchWorkspaceFactory.DefaultScratchWorkspace is called, it will create a new temporary workspace and pass it back.  Subsequent calls to this method will return the same workspace.  When the application is closed, the default scratch workspace will be deleted.

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