It’s been a while since we have heard from the Applications Prototype Team in Redlands. As always they are busy working on the next greatest idea that could eventuate into a product or provide a good showcase of technology. The Applications Prototype Team has built a sample web application using the Silverlight PivotViewer control to browse a large imagery collection of New Zealand. The Silverlight PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, informative, and valuable and the team has been able to leverage these capabilities in this...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 was released earlier this month in the run up to the ESRI International User Conference 2010. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 introduces a number of new features when working with ArcGIS Server 10 as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements for those working against ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 The new features and functionality in 2.0 that leverage ArcGIS Server 10 have been well received and discussions at the User Conference highlighted many of these benefits. There were a few questions around migration of Silverlight/WPF applications...

The first patch for ArcGIS Server 10 has been released. This patch addresses an issue in the REST API Server Information Resource when working with secure services on ArcGIS Server for the .NET Framework. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS Server 10.0 REST API Server Info Resource Patch for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This patch addresses an issue in the REST API Server Info resource. We recommend this patch to any secured ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework installations that use a token based security. Note that this is for those using secured services on ArcGIS Server for the .NET Framework...

A new option has been made available when publishing services on ArcGIS Server 10. This is the ability to periodically check and repair data connections for idle instances. Dependant on architecture and configuration, services could loose connections to ArcSDE or the backend database.  This new option prevents idle services from losing their connections. When a service instance sits idle, it can be difficult for a server administrator to determine if connections to the source data are being successfully maintained. ArcGIS Server has built-in mechanisms to check for invalid connections to ArcSDE...

ArcGIS for iOS was released last week and made available for download from the App Store as a productivity application. Since it’s release there has been lots of talk with users rushing to try many of the new features offered. Information on it’s release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Using ArcGIS.com you can create your own maps and view them in ArcGIS for iOS, however there are several reasons where you might not want to host your maps on ArcGIS.com and for these cases, ArcGIS for iOS has the ability to consume maps directly from your ArcGIS Server instance. Now this works...

With ArcGIS 10 being released and the kick of the ESRI International User Conference 2010, ESRI has made ArcGIS Server 10 available to customers via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud . “ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 gives customers another option for deploying ArcGIS Server," explains Ismael Chivite, product manager for ArcGIS Server. "Essentially, ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2 will reduce the complexity of software deployments for many organizations. Instead of installing and maintaining local instances of ArcGIS Server on premises, customers can launch ArcGIS Server on EC2 instances with...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 is now available! This has been in public beta for the last few months and is now final forming part of the ArcGIS 10 release. It’s great to see the team getting it out before the the upcoming ESRI International User Conference 2010. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 introduces a number of new features when working with ArcGIS Server 10 as well as a number of bug fixes and enhancements for those working against ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. A detailed list of what’s new can be found here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/… For those that have...

ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 has been released. This release includes an good number of fixes and enhancements. The announcement around this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… A detailed list of fixes and enhancements associated with each product can be found here: ArcGIS 9.3.1 (Desktop, Server, Engine) Service Pack 2 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcIMS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcSDE 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 download locations can be found here: US ArcGIS 9.3.1 (Desktop, Server, Engine) Service Pack 2 ArcGIS Image Server 9.3.1 Service Pack...

It’s been a couple months since the public beta of the ArcGIS API for iPhone was made available. This much anticipated API enables developers to build iPhone applications that utilize the power mapping, geocoding, geoprocessing and custom capabilities provided by ArcGIS Server. Since then we have seen the release of the iPhone 4 as well as ArcGIS for iOS and with these releases there has also been a name change. As some of you have already noticed, we renamed ArcGIS API for iPhone to ArcGIS API for iOS in anticipation of providing support for iOS 4. We are very pleased to announce that Update 1 of...

Those using ArcGIS Server 10 might come across this issue when publishing map services with mobile data access capabilities. In the past it was OK to publish an MXD as a map service with mobile data access capabilities enabled as long as it contained supported layers. However using ArcGIS Server 10, you will receive the following error message when trying to start a map service with mobile data access capabilities enabled. Now this message isn’t very useful and might be confusing to a number of users. So turning logging onto verbose and interrogating the log files we fine the following error...