It’s been a while since we have heard from the Applications Prototype Team in Redlands. As always they are busy working on the next greatest idea that could eventuate into a product or provide a good showcase of technology. The Applications Prototype Team has built a sample web application using the Silverlight PivotViewer control to browse a large imagery collection of New Zealand. The Silverlight PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and valuable and the team has been able to leverage these capabilities in this...

About a month ago I posted information about ArcGIS for Windows Phone and the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone which was coming soon. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/…. Well it’s now here and the the public beta of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone has been made available. We’re proud to announce that the initial beta for version 2.1 of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone is now available for download on the resource center.  The API is built on the Silverlight framework of the Windows Phone Application Platform which includes existing Microsoft tools and...

Earlier this year Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress 2010. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. For developers, Microsoft Silverlight is the platform for Windows Phone development and as such the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 was released earlier this month in the run up to the ESRI International User Conference 2010. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 introduces a number of new features when working with ArcGIS Server 10 as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements for those working against ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 The new features and functionality in 2.0 that leverage ArcGIS Server 10 have been well received and discussions at the User Conference highlighted many of these benefits. There were a few questions around migration of Silverlight/WPF applications...

The first patch for ArcGIS Server 10 has been released. This patch addresses an issue in the REST API Server Information Resource when working with secure services on ArcGIS Server for the .NET Framework. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS Server 10.0 REST API Server Info Resource Patch for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This patch addresses an issue in the REST API Server Info resource. We recommend this patch to any secured ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework installations that use a token based security. Note that this is for those using secured services on ArcGIS Server for the .NET Framework...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 was released last week. Information on this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… Since the release we have seen the toolkit made available on CodePlex. Information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/…, and a new template gallery which is now live. The template gallery provides a number of templates which you can peruse, view and download for use in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Expression Blend 4.   Seven initial templates have been provided.   The templates are really...

A new option has been made available when publishing services on ArcGIS Server 10. This is the ability to periodically check and repair data connections for idle instances. Dependant on architecture and configuration, services could loose connections to ArcSDE or the backend database.  This new option prevents idle services from losing their connections. When a service instance sits idle, it can be difficult for a server administrator to determine if connections to the source data are being successfully maintained. ArcGIS Server has built-in mechanisms to check for invalid connections to ArcSDE...

ArcGIS for iOS was released last week and made available for download from the App Store as a productivity application. Since it’s release there has been lots of talk with users rushing to try many of the new features offered. Information on it’s release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Using ArcGIS.com you can create your own maps and view them in ArcGIS for iOS, however there are several reasons where you might not want to host your maps on ArcGIS.com and for these cases, ArcGIS for iOS has the ability to consume maps directly from your ArcGIS Server instance. Now this works...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Toolkit is now available on CodePlex. The source code for this toolkit was made available when the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF was released last year and has now been updated with the latest version. This project contains the source code and libraries for the ESRI ArcGIS Silverlight Toolkit SDK. The library is an extension of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™. This library is only an extension of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™, so in order to build a complete web mapping application, you will also need...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 is now available! This has been in public beta for the last few months and is now final forming part of the ArcGIS 10 release. It’s great to see the team getting it out before the the upcoming ESRI International User Conference 2010. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 introduces a number of new features when working with ArcGIS Server 10 as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements for those working against ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. A detailed list of what’s new can be found here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/… For those that have...