Creating a Customized Raster Format DLL

Raster support in ArcGIS is built on an open structure based upon the DLL technology. With this open structure, users can add their own format support into ArcGIS by creating a customized DLL and plugging it into ArcGIS. The customized raster format, will be treated the same as other built-in raster formats. The customized DLL created in ArcGIS can be plugged into ArcIMS (4.0.1 or later) and images in customized format can be served through ArcIMS.

The documentation on how to build a customized format DLL is in the zip file below. It contains a technical paper, a reference book of the interface function definitions, C code samples and sample data, a configuration tool, and other supporting files.
Download the zip file:
FormatDLLDistribution_v3.zip (Updated 05/09/02, 1.85 MB Zip file)