https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/access-project-file-aprx-using-the-sdk/m-p/1118054#M7364 <P>Hey,</P><P>I am currently looking into the possibilty of accessing a ArcGIS Pro Project from the "outside" using the ArcGIS Pro SDK.&nbsp;</P><P>What I mean by that is that is that I don't want to access the "current" project using an AddIn, but instead use the Core-Assembly to access the content of a project from the outside, similar to what arcpy does by using soemthing like this:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(r"Path_to_my_project\project.aprx")</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>During my own research I could not find anything about it, so I wanted to make sure that its not possible by posting my question here.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Many thanks in advance!</P> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:34:18 GMT Kai_DA 2021-11-18T07:34:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/access-project-file-aprx-using-the-sdk/m-p/1118054#M7364 <P>Hey,</P><P>I am currently looking into the possibilty of accessing a ArcGIS Pro Project from the "outside" using the ArcGIS Pro SDK.&nbsp;</P><P>What I mean by that is that is that I don't want to access the "current" project using an AddIn, but instead use the Core-Assembly to access the content of a project from the outside, similar to what arcpy does by using soemthing like this:</P><LI-CODE lang="python">aprx = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject(r"Path_to_my_project\project.aprx")</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>During my own research I could not find anything about it, so I wanted to make sure that its not possible by posting my question here.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Many thanks in advance!</P> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:34:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/access-project-file-aprx-using-the-sdk/m-p/1118054#M7364 Kai_DA 2021-11-18T07:34:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/access-project-file-aprx-using-the-sdk/m-p/1118545#M7367 <P>The aprx file is a zip file containing xml which can be deserialized as CIM objects.&nbsp; Last I checked this is also "core" in the sense that it can be run with dotnet core (apparently no license initialization required).</P><LI-CODE lang="csharp">private static void Test() { string aprxFile = @"D:\ArcPro_Projects\Naperville\Naperville.aprx"; using (ZipArchive archive = System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.OpenRead(aprxFile)) { foreach (var entry in archive.Entries .Where(e =&gt; !e.FullName.StartsWith("Metadata/")) .Where(e =&gt; e.FullName.EndsWith(".xml"))) { try { using (var strm = new StreamReader(entry.Open())) { var xml = strm.ReadToEnd(); var obj = CIMObject.FromXml(xml); Debug.Print($"type: {obj}"); } } catch(Exception ex) { Debug.Print($"error {entry.FullName} : {ex.Message}"); } } } }</LI-CODE> Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:24:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/access-project-file-aprx-using-the-sdk/m-p/1118545#M7367 KirkKuykendall1 2021-11-19T04:24:20Z