The much anticipated ArcGIS Viewer for Flex has now been made available for download as a public beta. The ArcGIS API for Flex development team is excited to announce that the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex (BETA) application is now available for testing. The ArcGIS Viewer for Flex is built with the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0, and is based on the popular Sample Flex Viewer that was used with the 1.x versions of the Flex API. This comes on the back of the release of the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 which was made available last week. Information about that release can be found here:...

Both the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 and the ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 are now available. These API’s have been in public beta for a the last few month and have now been made available coinciding with the release of ArcGIS 10. Information on the ArcGIS 10 release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Both API’s introduce a number of new features with the release of ArcGIS. Some of these include: The ArcGIS API for JavaScript 2.0 Feature Layers Editing Time Aware Layers Network Analyst Image Server New Samples Updates To The Geometry Service Mapping Enhancements The ArcGIS...

The ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 Public Beta has now been made available for use. There were a number of demonstrations and sessions at the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 showcasing the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0 and now you can try it yourself. Like its JavaScript counterpart, version 2.0 of the ArcGIS API for Flex introduces support for Web editing, a "feature layer" for working with client-side graphics, support for time-aware layers, an expanded geometry service, new components, faster queries, and many other features. There are bundles of new features in this latest version. Some of these...

The ArcGIS Web Mapping API’s Product Life Cycle has been released and is now available. The ArcGIS Web Mapping API’s consists of the following: ArcGIS API for JavaScript ArcGIS API for Flex ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Flex To the effect of their Product Release Cycle, the release date for the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs matches that of ArcGIS. For example, the release date of version 1.x of the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs is June 2008 (coinciding with 9.3). The release date of version 2.x of the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs will coincide with ArcGIS 9.4. Something to note as we head closer...

It’s been nearly six months since we have seen a release of the ArcGIS API for Flex. Since then the Flex API has grown in popularity with users actively developing some really neat applications. Most of the new applications I have seen recently have been built in Flex and it’s a great showcase for the ArcGIS API for Flex. Late last week, the ArcGIS API for Flex 1.3 was made available. While this is a minor release it does come packed with a bundle of “goodies”. Concepts, samples and reference documentation for the ArcGIS API for Flex has been updated as well. There has been a few bug fixes...

I get asked this question loads and as such I have been meaning to get around to writing a post providing some pointers on how to go about choosing one of the Web Mapping API’s. The good thing is Sterling has saved me the time in doing so and has responded to this question with some questions of his own. So the Web Mapping API’s available at the moment include: ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF ArcGIS API for Flex ArcGIS API for JavaScript Note that these are different to the ADF’s that ship with ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. The ADF’s are available in .NET and Java. Some of the...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF was officially released at the ESRI User Conference 2009. Through the beta stage there has been a few applications come up, internally we have been working on a number of client applications as well as learning applications to get up to speed with things. Until now I haven’t seen an application that showcases some of the key capabilities of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. To showcase some of the capabilities of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF, Morten along with a few of the guys from the .NET Team at ESRI has built a nice...

With the release of  the ArcGIS API for JavaScript almost a year ago, many users have been confused about licensing. Since then we have seen the introduction of the ArcGIS API for Flex and recently the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF. It seems that many users are still confused about the licensing. So to clear this up. Until now the API’s were FREE for development and testing purposes ONLY. You were required to have an licensed ArcGIS Server or a Web Map API Licence. At the ESRI International User Conference 2009 a few weeks ago, ESRI decided to simplify this model and announced: The...

For those that have been wondering how to go about doing this. A short article has been posted by the ESRI Support Centre. This article provides a brief look into integrating the Adobe Flex Builder Plugin into an existing Eclipse IDE. You can find this article here: http://blogs.esri.com/support/… Extremely useful for existing Java ADF developers wanting to work with the ArcGIS API for...

Over the weekend, the updated ArcGIS API For Flex 1.2 was made available from download from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. Information about this can be found on my post here:  http://mandown.co.nz/esri/… The ArcGIS API For Flex 1.2 includes a bundle of new features along with a few bug fixes. New Features: Routing using ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping Microsoft Virtual Earth geocoding Renderers to use instead of custom SymbolFunction to easily work with class breaks and unique values for thematic mapping Useful utility classes New properties New styles New...