ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

BUILDING APPLICATIONS WITH WINDOWS CONTROLS
Loading map documents into the PageLayoutControl and
MapControl
Individual data layers or preauthored map documents can be loaded into the
MapControl and PageLayoutControl. You can either load the sample map document
provided, or you can load in your own map document. Later you will add a
dialog box to browse to a map document.
1. Select the Form_Load event and enter the following code (if you are using
your own map document, substitute the correct filename):
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Load a preauthored map document into the PageLayoutControl using
// relative paths.
string fileName =
@"..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Data\\ArcGIS_Engine_Developer_Guide\Gulf of St.
Lawrence.mxd";
if (axPageLayoutControl1.CheckMxFile(fileName))
{
axPageLayoutControl1.LoadMxFile(fileName,"");
}
}
2. Display the form in design mode and select axPageLayoutControl1 from the
Properties window and display the axPageLayoutControl events. Double-click
on the OnPageLayoutReplaced event to add an event handler to the code
window.
3. In the axPageLayoutControl_OnPageLayoutReplaced event, enter the following
code to load the same map document into the MapControl. The
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