topic Re: .MXD description in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/mxd-description/m-p/182214#M4729 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>MXD files are OLE structured storage.&nbsp; You can walk the storages and streams w/o ArcObjects but what you will get is binary data.&nbsp; I am not aware of ESRI documentating the format of the binary data.&nbsp; Of course, you can reverse engineer it.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:43:39 GMT RichardWatson 2010-12-15T17:43:39Z .MXD description https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/mxd-description/m-p/182213#M4728 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, where i can find .MXD file description? I have to read the layers hierarchy without Arcobject, but there is so chaos struct...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:02:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/mxd-description/m-p/182213#M4728 EugeneChuguy 2010-12-15T09:02:17Z Re: .MXD description https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/mxd-description/m-p/182214#M4729 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>MXD files are OLE structured storage.&nbsp; You can walk the storages and streams w/o ArcObjects but what you will get is binary data.&nbsp; I am not aware of ESRI documentating the format of the binary data.&nbsp; Of course, you can reverse engineer it.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:43:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/mxd-description/m-p/182214#M4729 RichardWatson 2010-12-15T17:43:39Z