How to save a raster type to a .art file

Saving a raster type to a .art file

1. Use the IRasterTypeProperties interface to give the saved raster type a name.
2. Use the raster type environment class to save the raster type. The saved raster type is given out as a memory blob that is written to the file.
   
   See the following code example:
   

[C#]

public void SaveRasterType(IRasterType theRasterType, string rasterTypeFilePath)
{
    // The raster type properties interface can be used to give the saved raster type a name.
    IRasterTypeProperties theRasterTypeProperties=(IRasterTypeProperties)
        theRasterType;
    theRasterTypeProperties.Name="myRasterType";
    // The raster type environment class is used to save the raster type.
    IRasterTypeEnvironment theRasterTypeEnv=new RasterTypeEnvironmentClass();
    // The saved raster type is given out as a memory blob,
    IMemoryBlobStream ipBlob=theRasterTypeEnv.SaveRasterType(theRasterType);
    // which is then written out to the file.
    ipBlob.SaveToFile(rasterTypeFilePath);
    Console.WriteLine("Successfully saved: " + rasterTypeFilePath);
}

[VB.NET]

Public Sub SaveRasterType(ByVal theRasterType As IRasterType, ByVal rasterTypeFilePath As String)
    ' The raster type properties interface can be used to give the saved raster type a name.
    Dim theRasterTypeProperties As IRasterTypeProperties=DirectCast(theRasterType, IRasterTypeProperties)
    theRasterTypeProperties.Name="myRasterType"
    ' The raster type environment class is used to save the raster type.
    Dim theRasterTypeEnv As IRasterTypeEnvironment=New RasterTypeEnvironmentClass()
    ' The saved raster type is given out as a memory blob,
    Dim ipBlob As IMemoryBlobStream=theRasterTypeEnv.SaveRasterType(theRasterType)
    ' which is then written out to the file.
    ipBlob.SaveToFile(rasterTypeFilePath)
    Console.WriteLine("Successfully saved: " & rasterTypeFilePath)
End Sub

See Also:

How to open and prepare a raster type

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To use the code in this topic, reference the following assemblies in your Visual Studio project. In the code files, you will need using (C#) or Imports (VB .NET) directives for the corresponding namespaces (given in parenthesis below if different from the assembly name):

• ESRI.ArcGIS.DataSourcesRaster
• ESRI.ArcGIS.System (ESRI.ArcGIS.esriSystem)

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