get style item name of one marker symbol

Question

i used next code to load a symbol with specific style.. now i need to do the opposite operation.. i mean, i have one symbol and i want to know it's style.

is it possible?

private ISymbol LoadStyleSymbol()
{
    try
    {
        IStyleGallery styleGallery = new ServerStyleGalleryClass();
        IStyleGalleryStorage styleStorage = styleGallery as IStyleGalleryStorage;
        styleStorage.TargetFile = @"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Engine10.0\Styles\3D Billboards.ServerStyle";
        styleStorage.AddFile(@"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Engine10.0\Styles\3D Billboards.ServerStyle");
        IEnumStyleGalleryItem enumStyleGalleryItem = styleGallery.Items["Marker Symbols", @"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Engine10.0\Styles\3D Billboards.ServerStyle", ""];
        enumStyleGalleryItem.Reset();
        IStyleGalleryItem styleItem = enumStyleGalleryItem.Next();

        while (styleItem != null)
        {
            if (styleItem.Name == "Red Pushpin 4") break;
            styleItem = enumStyleGalleryItem.Next();
        }

        ISymbol pSymbol = styleItem.Item as ISymbol;

        return pSymbol;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("error 8, " + ex.Message);
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 1

Once you have an ISymbol reference only, you cannot get the style item it came from. Symbols are not linked to the style gallery item.

One way could be to search the style gallery for an item with an equivalent symbol. To compare your symbol and the symbol stored under a gallery item, you could use the IClone.IsEqual method since most symbol classes do implement the IClone interface.