Provides access to members that control the Element Properties. Note: the IElementProperties interface has been superseded byIElementProperties3. Please consider using the more recent version.

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When To Use

IElementProperties is a generic interface implemented by all GraphicElement objects (TextElement, PolygonElement, LineElement, etc.). The interface is used to assign custom properties to an element.

Members

CoClasses that implement IElementProperties

Remarks

Use the IElementProperties interface when you need to tag your graphic elements so that you can identify them later. An example of where this would be useful is when you add graphics to a layout, and know that you would want to delete them later, and need to distinguish them from the ones already present in the layout.

If you want to tag your element with a text string, you can simply use the Name or the Type property. If you want to associate another datatype with it, you can use the CustomProperty property which takes a Variant.

See Also

IElement Interface

.NET Samples

Geoevents in a MapControl (Code Files: GeoEvents) | Move a graphic along a path in ArcMap (Code Files: AnimationTypeMapGraphic MapGraphicKeyframe MapGraphicTrackExtension) | Copy the PageLayoutControl focus map and overwrite the MapControl map (Code Files: CopyFocusMap)