I would like to be able to read connection properties from an sde file without any Esri dependencies such as Arcpy, ArcObjects etc. Is this possible?
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You can with arcobjects. – Kirk Kuykendall Jan 14 '19 at 16:37
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@KirkKuykendall just updated my question. I cant use any esri dependencies. – its30 Jan 14 '19 at 16:40
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2You can certainly read it. It's less likely that you'll successfully reverse-engineer it. Decrypting the password will be the sticking point. – Vince Jan 14 '19 at 18:11
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If you have the connection parameters then you should not use .sde. If you don't have the connection parameters, I don't think that you would be able to decrypt the password that is stored in the encrypted .sde file. This was a product of ArcSDE which is an ESRI proprietary software. – enolan Jan 14 '19 at 19:55
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1No, the connection file is not "a product of ArcSDE". Connection files were always an ArcObjects-managed entity. – Vince Jan 14 '19 at 21:07