I have now created a gallery on my website. I’ll be uploading all my pictures from the conference here, while im there. Ive just got extra memory sticks for my camera as well, so I hope to be taking alot of pictures while im there Gallery can be found here:...

Excellent news!.Was told the other day that im off to Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 (New Zealand) this year. As always it will be held in Auckland, New Zealand. This is probably the biggest gathering of IT folk in the country, second to our New Zealand ESRI User Conference, which is held here in Wellington.I am really looking forward to this as well now, as it is a very powerful conference, with a load of good information direct from the guys at Microsoft. The biggest thing of Tech-Ed would be the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005 and ASP.NET...

I have been doing alot of work with my site. I didnt really like the previous theme I had, so I have been doing alot of searching and I have finally found this one!. Its a great theme, and really clean and sharp. I have also enabled comments on my posts now, so you guys can post comments ...

After some messing around today to figure out what was wrong, I finally found the problem. This included me doing alot of tests on the MXD, and even creating new MXD’s. I knew it wasnt my code as well Eventually discovered that it was the SDE database that was the problem!. Very bizzare!.Created a new SDE database and it worked fine. What could of been the difference?. Well it had to do with permissions on the namespace!. Finally thats resolved and code it now functional again.Its the a pity that the errors coming back from ArcGIS Server, just are not there at all! Instead of displaying a...

This year at the user conference, we will be doing a presentation on our recently completed project for New Zealand Post (http://www.nzpost.co.nz). Was a full ArcGIS Server implementation with ArcSDE and Oracle backend. We put in alot of hard work in getting this project completed in the time frame, but the end result was amazing. I have since finished this project and am now working on a new similar ArcGIS Server implemenation. For those going to the user conference this year, please try and make it to our presentation. Should be really good GIS Case Studies and Best Practices: New Zealand Post...

This is probably a known bug, but I thought I would just blog it anyways, just in case some people have this problem.Very simple bug actually, in the designer, on the toolbar control, setting the properties, under ToolbarItemHoverStyle, and under font, setting italics to false. Run your application and hover over the toolbar and you will notice that the font is still italics.This applies when the ToolbarStyle is set to image and text. It is kinda of an annoying bug, but none the less, then again who uses text on a toolbar?. hehe. I just use it in deveopment until the design team take over and make some...

Spent a long while today doing alot of work with the IFeatureExtent interface.Its typical use is for zooming to a selected features of a layer.Well I started off running into some very weird problems. I initially had this working on the prototype version of this particular project.Now that we are into full development phase the code had to be upgraded to production quality and altered to fit into our framework to support our own interfaces!.There was also a new MXD that was created, with updated imagery. Thats looking really nice!.Here comes the intresting problem. Suddenly my zoom to selected feature...

I see Art Haddad (http://spaces.msn.com/members/artsplace/) (ESRI) will be hosting the first ever ArcGIS Server/ArcIMS .NET Special Intrest Group metting at the UC this year!. This should be great and am really looking forward to meeting up with everyone I have met on the forums and in general at ESRI. It will good to discuss everyones experiences . Details here:ArcGIS .NET Developer Special Interest Group Meeting Wednesday, July 27, 2005, 12:15 PM-1:15 PM, Room 3...

Not sure if any of you guys have been playing or havnig lots of problems with the WebMap class on the .NET ADF? Here are few of a senarios I have come up with:1. Using The Map ControlYou have a map control with an impersonation control on the page.This is great but rather simple for an ArcGIS Server implementation. The disadvantage is that having that map control on the page, means you have to hard code the impersonation string, and hard code the host and serverobject. You can try and work around this, but after all different ways of trying its not possible. Reason?. Well...

The fallout from London’s terrorist bombings has led to three disruptions in the Wellington region because of bomb scares. Roads were closed in each case while bomb squads dealt with unattended suitcases in Tawa, Lower Hutt and central Wellington yesterday. The first call was to the United States ambassador’s home in Woburn Rd, Lower Hutt, about 7am after a walker spotted a briefcase outside. The area was cordoned off and police from the specialist search unit, a sniffer dog and Defence Force staff were sent in. The briefcase turned out to have been left by an employee as he was taking out...