Is there anywhere that explains simply the principles of shapes & features & the differences between them?
For example, are the following 2 statements true?
1) Features can have labels but shapes cannot.
2) Shapes can be rotated & moved but features cannot.
Looking at example projects, whenever I see sample code for labels, it is associated with features, not shapes, but whenever I see sample code for moving & rotating, the code is associated with shapes, not features.
What I was originally trying to do was have a shape (a ship) which I could move & rotate & label, after reading the data from a SQL Server 2008 table (with no spatial data in it). I got all done apart from the labeling. It seemed I needed to be using features instead of shapes to get labeling done but that brought up problems of then not being able to move or rotate features....
I seem to spend more time trying to find examples than actually reading them. There are C# sample & VB samples to choose from, then if I find a VB sample it invariably is in VB.Net 2005 or something else old that VB.Net 2010 can't read because it has a vbproj file. I will certainly be looking forward to the day when we get a real user manual, even if it is in the form of a Wiki - trying to work from examples and an API document involves a huge learning curve.
Dave