ThinkGeo.Dependency.FileGeoDatabase 15.0.0-beta002

ThinkGeo.Dependency.FileGeoDatabase

A wrapper around Esri's File Geodatabase API v1.5.x for Windows. This is a foundational dependency of ThinkGeo.FileGeoDatabase and is not intended to be referenced directly by application projects.

The package enables ThinkGeo's File Geodatabase integration to read and write Esri File Geodatabase (.gdb) feature classes, tables, and rasters without requiring an ArcGIS installation on the target machine.

Supported platforms

• Architecture: Windows x64 (Esri's prebuilt File Geodatabase API ships only as x64 — there is no x86 build)
• Minimum OS: Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 (aligned with the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015–2022 Runtime requirements pulled in via ThinkGeo.Dependency.MicrosoftVisualCRunTime140)
• Target frameworks: .NET Framework 4.6.2+ and .NET Standard 2.1 (which covers .NET Core 3.1 / .NET 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 …)

The native FileGDBAPI binaries are deployed app-locally during dotnet build and dotnet publish by the bundled MSBuild .targets file: the DLLs are copied next to your application executable so the managed wrapper can P/Invoke into them.

No separate ArcGIS or File Geodatabase API install is required — the FileGDBAPI native DLL ships inside this NuGet package and is deployed app-locally. Likewise, no manual VC++ Redistributable install is required on the target machine; the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015–2022 Runtime DLLs flow in via the transitive ThinkGeo.Dependency.MicrosoftVisualCRunTime140 dependency.

What's inside

Managed wrapper, under lib/<tfm>/:

• Esri.FileGDBAPI.dll — Esri's official C# wrapper around the native FileGDB API (built for net462 and netstandard2.1)

Native binaries, under buildTransitive/win-x64/:

• FileGDBAPI.dll — Esri File Geodatabase API native runtime (release)
• FileGDBAPID.dll — Esri File Geodatabase API native runtime (debug)
• FileGDB_API_license.txt — Apache License, Version 2.0 (verbatim copy as distributed by Esri)

The native binaries are sourced from the official Esri/file-geodatabase-api project.

Licensing

Both the Esri File Geodatabase API binaries and the Esri.FileGDBAPI managed wrapper are released by Esri under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The ThinkGeo packaging metadata and bundled MSBuild .targets are likewise Apache 2.0. The full license text is included alongside the native binaries (FileGDB_API_license.txt) and is also available through the Esri repository linked above.

This package depends transitively on ThinkGeo.Dependency.MicrosoftVisualCRunTime140, which redistributes the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015–2022 Runtime under Microsoft's separate distributable code license; see that package's LICENSE.txt for details.

Reporting issues

This package is part of the ThinkGeo product line. Please report issues through ThinkGeo support channels rather than to Esri.