ArcGIS Product Life Cycle’s have been updated for the recent ArcGIS 9.3.1 release. No big changes. ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS 9.3 are in general availability with ArcGIS 9.2 in extended support. ArcGIS 9.1 is in mature support. Versions before ArcGIS 9.1 are retired and no longer supported. The documentation can be found here: ArcGIS ArcGIS Server ArcGIS Imager Server ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit ArcGIS Engine Runtime Something new to note is that ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved to retired support with the release of ArcGIS...

After the ESRI Developer Summit 2009 in Palm Springs last week, I spent Friday at the ESRI campus in Redlands. It was great catching up with the Application Prototype Team and seeing what they have been working. One of the nice samples Richie has been working on is the Presentation Extension for ArcGIS Desktop. What does it offer? Well it allows users to give presentations directly from ArcMap without the need for Microsoft Powerpoint. It also gives users the ability to interact with the map during the presentation. The sample comes with a Presentation Manager and a Presentation Window. It’s built...

ESRI has released a bundle of information on what’s coming in ArcGIS 9.3.1. Firstly ArcGIS 9.3.1 should not be confused with a service pack release. ArcGIS 9.3.1 is a dot release which will include product enhancements and certain bug fixes. ArcGIS 9.3.1 improves the performance of dynamic map publishing and increases the sharing of geographic information. Being a dot release means that ArcGIS 9.3.1 will NOT be made available for users to downloaded. ESRI will automatically ship ArcGIS 9.3.1 to users current on maintenance. Service Pack’s will still be available for users to download from the...

This week I have been doing some research and development around some of the new sample viewers that ESRI has build for ArcGIS Server 9.3 users. Sample viewers exist for the different API’s and is freely available for users to download and extend. Today I thought I would download and have a look at the Sample ArcGIS 9.3 JavaScript API Viewer. This viewer can be found and downloaded from the Code Gallery on the ArcGIS Server Resource Centre here: http://resources.esri.com/arcgisserver/… Included in the .zip is a developers guide and the folder containing all the required files. The...

I have now got ArcGIS 9.3 successfully installed and running well on Microsoft Windows 7.  So it was a bit of a task to figure out why things wouldn’t work on Windows 7 and basically the problems came down to the following: Registering vbscript.dll Installing Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 4.0 SP2 In Windows Vista Compatibility Mode Running ArcGIS 9.3 Installation With Elevated Permissions Full instructions on how to install ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 7 can be found in my post here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… I will be testing general compatibility over the next few...