Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· george-silva

Multiple class extension support

The ArcGIS geodatabase model only supports 1 class-extension per feature class or table at a time.

To enable multiple class extensions support you will need to develop a custom class extension that knows:

  1. How to instantiate all other needed class extensions;

  2. Hook into all class extension events that are needed;

  3. Delegate the events to the "sub-class extensions".

This model worked in some implementations that we customized for our customers. We actually, built a dynamic class-extension register to control which extension gets instantiated at run-time and delegate everything to the appropriate .NET classes.

We are planning to open-source this control, which we called Morphling (after the Magic The Gathering card).

Interested?