topic Opening an MXD outside of an arcMap Session in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/opening-an-mxd-outside-of-an-arcmap-session/m-p/87254#M2277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've been running geoprocessing functions in a stand alone program that consumes an ArcGIS Desktop license.&nbsp; One of the Models I call uses "Map to KML" which can use an MXD file as a parameter,&nbsp; It works fine but I would like to tweak it a bit. I have code that produces the KML I want but it needs to run in ArcMAP.&nbsp; I need to develop a custom geoprocessor tool taht I can feed an MXD to, however I'm unfamiliar with how to reference the layers inside a map document out side of an ArcMap Session.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to do this, can I open an MXD without the ArcMAp UI or Map Control?&nbsp; I image the tollbox item "Map to KML" does this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:09:34 GMT MichaelAdornetto 2010-08-26T18:09:34Z Opening an MXD outside of an arcMap Session https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/opening-an-mxd-outside-of-an-arcmap-session/m-p/87254#M2277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've been running geoprocessing functions in a stand alone program that consumes an ArcGIS Desktop license.&nbsp; One of the Models I call uses "Map to KML" which can use an MXD file as a parameter,&nbsp; It works fine but I would like to tweak it a bit. I have code that produces the KML I want but it needs to run in ArcMAP.&nbsp; I need to develop a custom geoprocessor tool taht I can feed an MXD to, however I'm unfamiliar with how to reference the layers inside a map document out side of an ArcMap Session.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to do this, can I open an MXD without the ArcMAp UI or Map Control?&nbsp; I image the tollbox item "Map to KML" does this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:09:34 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/opening-an-mxd-outside-of-an-arcmap-session/m-p/87254#M2277 MichaelAdornetto 2010-08-26T18:09:34Z Re: Opening an MXD outside of an arcMap Session https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/opening-an-mxd-outside-of-an-arcmap-session/m-p/87255#M2278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Check out the IMapDocument interface.&nbsp; It is built to allow this type of activity you are interested in.&nbsp; You can use it to open a map document, read layers, etc. without the code having to run inside an mxd.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mark</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:39:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/opening-an-mxd-outside-of-an-arcmap-session/m-p/87255#M2278 MarkWelsh 2010-08-27T13:39:27Z