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.MXD description

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12-15-2010 01:02 AM

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Hi, where i can find .MXD file description? I have to read the layers hierarchy without Arcobject, but there is so chaos struct...

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MXD files are OLE structured storage. You can walk the storages and streams w/o ArcObjects but what you will get is binary data. I am not aware of ESRI documentating the format of the binary data. Of course, you can reverse engineer it.