How to include the GDAL extension in my project (to read all types of raster files)

I have created a console application project with DotSpatial examples, taken from the documentation page: https://github.com/xavierpena/DotSpatialExamples

A strong limitation is that, with the “out of the box” utilities provided by the NuGet packages, I could only use .bgd raster files (extensive explanation about this issue here).

From the examples: “Be sure to install the GDAL extension if you want to view different types of files”. So I have been trying to integrate the GDAL extensions so I can load other types of raster files, with no success so far…

Things I’ve tried:

1. Tutorial “Accessing GDAL data provider in DotSpatial” (from the codeplex page)

2. Blog post: “How to support extensions in dotspatial”

3. Using the project DotSpatial.Data.Rasters.GdalExtension from your project and adding it as a project in my solution (I made it compile, which wasn’t easy, but it wouldn’t load new raster extensions either)

Are there any hints that could let me succeed in reading those other kinds of raster files in my c# project?

[MonamiMark]

Hi, I have the same problem. Tried tutorial for windows forms application and have not succeed in including GDAL extension. Have anybody found the solution?

[VectorZita]

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