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MapControl loses ActiveView events after la...	Randal Greene	Sep 21, 2009
Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events afte...	Randal Greene	Sep 21, 2009
Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events afte...	Franck Krogh Mortensen	Sep 22, 2009
Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events afte...	Randal Greene	Sep 22, 2009
Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events afte...	Franck Krogh Mortensen	Sep 22, 2009

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Subject	MapControl loses ActiveView events after layers added
Author	Randal Greene
Date	Sep 21, 2009
Message	Good day, I'm building an ArcGIS Engine for 9.3 using VS.NET 2008 (C#). In OnMapReplaced I hook up ActiveView event handlers for ContentsChanged and ItemAdded. Later, adding a newly created raster layer using InsertLayerInGroup causes the ActiveView event handlers to usually (but not always) be unhooked. What would cause this? Why is it inconsistent? What can be done about it? Attempting to re-hook the ActiveView event handlers results in "COM object that has been separated from its underlying RCW cannot be used". However, I think the fist paragraph is the real issue! Thanks in advance...

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Subject	Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events after layers added
Author	Randal Greene
Date	Sep 21, 2009
Message	Did some more testing and it appears that adding the new layer was not what caused the events to unhook. Simply turning layers on/off and right-clicking them to show the context menu eventually caused the events to unhook. So I did some more hunting on the forum here, and found several references to use of static variables. So I made the delegates static variables, and thought I had solved the problem entirely. But a few minutes ago, after a relatively long test session, the ActiveView events became unhooked! Any thoughts appreciated...
	static IActiveViewEvents_ContentsChangedEventHandler m_ContentsChangedEventHandler; static IActiveViewEvents_ItemAddedEventHandler m_ItemAddedEventHandler; private void m_AxMapControl_OnMapReplaced(object sender, IMapControlEvents2_OnMapReplacedEvent e) { m_ContentsChangedEventHandler = new IActiveViewEvents_ContentsChangedEventHandler(m_AxMapControl_ActiveView_ContentsChanged); ((ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IActiveViewEvents_Event)(m_AxMapControl.ActiveView)).ContentsChanged += m_ContentsChangedEventHandler; m_ItemAddedEventHandler = new IActiveViewEvents_ItemAddedEventHandler(m_AxMapControl_ActiveView_ItemAdded); ((ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IActiveViewEvents_Event)(m_AxMapControl.ActiveView)).ItemAdded += m_ItemAddedEventHandler; }

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Subject	Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events after layers added
Author	Franck Krogh Mortensen
Date	Sep 22, 2009
Message	I think if you make the ((ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IActiveViewEvents_Event)(m_AxMapControl.ActiveView)) as a member variable, your problem can be solved.

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Subject	Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events after layers added
Author	Randal Greene
Date	Sep 22, 2009
Message	So far so good with my testing. Does only IActiveViewEvents_Event need to be a member, or the EventHandlers as well? Does it matter whether I use static members or instance members? Thanks for your help.

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Subject	Re: MapControl loses ActiveView events after layers added
Author	Franck Krogh Mortensen
Date	Sep 22, 2009
Message	It is only the IActiveViewEvents_Event that need to be a member. When we saw the problem we concluded that somehow the IActiveViewEvents_Event is marked for garbage collection when used as a local variable (and that's why the events gets lost).