Release Candidate ArcGIS API For Microsoft Silverlight/WPF Now Available

The release candidate build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server.

Build numbers are as follows:

Initial Release: 1.0.0.160

Updated Release: 1.0.0.209

Release Candidate: 1.0.0.255

There are a number of updates and enhancements along with a few breaking changes as well as a few bugs which have been resolved. The updates/enhancements include:

• Breaking Change: All assemblies and namespaces have been appended with name “Client”. For example: ESRI.ArcGIS.* has become ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.*. This change was made to clearly demark the Silverlight\WPF assemblies and types and avoid collisions with other ESRI APIs, such as ArcObjects.
• Breaking Change: The ESRI.ArcGIS.Widgets.* assembly and namespace is now ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Toolkit.*.
• Breaking Change: The ESRI.ArcGIS.VirtualEarth.* assembly and namespace is now ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Bing.*.
• Marker, line and fill outline symbols do not scale while zooming.
• Breaking Change: The ICopyrightPanel interface has been removed. Map layer copyright information has been removed from the Map control.
• Breaking Change: ClassBreakRenderer has been renamed to ClassBreaksRenderer.
• Breaking Change: Clustering has been moved from FeatureLayer to GraphicsLayer. Clustering is also customizable. You can define the properties of the flare and cluster symbols. See the Simple Clusterer and Custom Clusterer samples for an example.
• GraphicsLayer has an IsHitTestVisible property to enable\disable interaction with mouse events.
• ArcGIS Server Map service layers have a Unit property to discover the unit of the map (e.g. esriDecimalDegrees, esriMeters).
• Tasks have an IsBusy property and a CancelAsync() method. When a task instance is executing (sending a request and waiting for a response) the IsBusy property returns true. To cancel execution, call CancelAsync().
• Task operations allow for including a user token (user defined object) when executing the task. The user token will be returned to the appropriate event handler when task execution completes or fails.
• RoutingTask has been added to support routing operations provided by ArcGIS Server Network Analyst services.

The list of resolved bugs can be found here: http://resources.esri.com/help/…

Most of the breaking changes seem to be around the change to namespaces. This shouldn’t pose too much of a problem when updating to this release candidate.

Samples and reference documentation has also been updated. You can download this new build here: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/…