ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Toolkit Now Available On CodePlex

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™

The toolkit includes a number of controls, widgets and tools that you can use to enhance your web applications. This opens the door for developers to create their own mapping tools as well extend the existing ones.

The samples site on the resource centre contains a number of examples from controls, widgets and tools that are included within the toolkit. You can have a look at these here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/…

A new addition to the toolkit is the inclusion of ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Toolkit.Datasources.dll. This assembly allows developers to utilise a number of alternative datasources. These include the likes of OpenStreetMap, WMS. Examples of these can be found on the link above.

Reference documentation on the toolkit can be found here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/…

Downloads for the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Toolkit can be found CodePlex here: http://esrisilverlight.codeplex.com/documentation