ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.2 Now Available

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.2 is now available for download! This can be downloaded from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server.

This is a quality release that contains a set of updates and fixes.

There have been a bundle of bug fixes as well as a number of new features, enhancements and changes. Updates/enhancements include:

• The Standard and Showcase Silverlight templates are now integrated with Visual Web Developer Express 2008.   
• A new event handler has been added to feature layers to listed for updates. The UpdateChanged event will fire when the all graphic features in the feature layer have been retrieved.
• Spatial reference of geometry returned in a DrawCompleted event handler matches the Map.
• Spatial reference of geometry returned with features from a query operation matches the Map by default.
• Added support for using Bing Maps geocode and route services over HTTPS.
• Added an Effect property to layers to enable the use of a pixelshader.
• Improve logging support and enable writing to the browser debug log.
• Navigation control’s zoom slider can be enabled by setting minimum and maximum resolution on the map. The zoom slider is no longer dependent on a tiled map service layer to be displayed.
• WPF: Added Graphics.FindGraphicsInHostCoordinates method.

There has been ~ 15 bugs fixed. This list can be found here: http://resources.esri.com/help/… with a complete list of public API changes between version 1.1 and 1.2 here: http://resources.esri.com/help/…

Concepts, samples and reference documentation has been updated as well and can be found here: http://resources.esri.com/help/…

A few users have been asking questions around using multiple versions of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF on the same machine. This has been addressed here: http://blogs.esri.com/dev/…

It is important to note that you can install multiple versions of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF on the same machine, but the IDE integration features (assembly references, toolbox integration, and templates) will reference the last installed version.  As a result, if you install 1.2 on a machine that has 1.1, all IDE integration features will reference 1.2.  The 1.1 Silverlight and WPF assemblies will remain installed.

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.2 is a solid release that offers some good enhancements with useful bug fixes. You can downloaded this release here: http://resources.esri.com/gateway/…