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...

Microsoft has now released Sliverlight 2! Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences. Silverlight was launched about a year ago and it’s been great to see so many users adopt the technology. When first released there...

Earlier this week Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. This service pack fixes a bundle of bugs and improves performance and stability. There are also some new features which have been added. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 delivers: Improved WPF designers SQL Server 2008 support ADO.NET Entity Designer Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’) Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usability and performance, email integration with work item tracking and...

I came across a interesting write up on what makes a good developer. ‘Good’ means having qualities that are desirable and distinguishing. From a developer’s perspective, these qualities are both technical as well as non-technical. Here are some qualities that a developer should possess if he/she aims at becoming a ‘good’ developer.  Suprotim Agarwal mentions fourteen qualities that he thinks makes a good developer. Good Communication Skills Positive Attitude Read Books Practice, Practice and Practice Discussion/Newsgroup Knowledge of Networking and...

ESRI has released their first patch for ArcGIS Server 9.3. This comes in the form of a download which addresses performance and adds a extra piece of functionality to the REST API. ESRI® announces the ArcGIS Server 9.3 for the Microsoft .Net Framework REST API Performance and Functionality Patch. This patch includes two performance fixes. The first fix improves performance when accessing map tiles on a secure ArcGIS Server. The second fix adds the ability to turn off impersonation and allow REST Service to use a separate application pool with fixed identity. To learn more about using a separate...

A new video has been posted to the ESRI Developer Network Media Centre. The video features Don Kemlage from the ArcGIS .NET Development Team. Don discusses some of the new improvements, enhancements and offers some tips and tricks around the developer help for .NET. In this video, Don Kemlage from ESRI’s ArcGIS .NET development team takes a few minutes to describe many of these improvements. Discussed are enhancements to help topics, samples, code snippets, and walkthough tutorials. Don also describes some neat tips and tricks for searching and filtering results. The video with the write up can...

ESRI has updated some information about this topic. Almost exactly a year ago I posted some information about this here: http://se7en.co.nz/cms…. Reverse proxies are becoming more and more common in ArcGIS Server implementations and knowing how this works and how to go about setting this up is key. You can have a look at the updated information about how to configure ArcGIS Server 9.2 to work with a reverse proxy here: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm…. This technical article covers both .NET and Java implementations which is really...

More and more users out there are making the moving to x64. The processors coming out these days are all x64 an I have noticed recently that users are starting install Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 to run their applications. This is good move although there is a little configuration to get ArcGIS Server 9.2 running on Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP or even Windows 2000. This configuration change is to do with the .NET Framework and IIS. You have to enabled 32-bit application support on IIS. This is because ArcGIS Server 9.2 runs as a native 32-bit application on x64. ArcGIS Server 9.2 and...

The developer and platform evangelism team at Microsoft has put together a really cool training kit for users out there wanting to get started with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. What is the kit? It’s a collection of hands-on-labs, presentations and demonstrations. The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace,...

Microsoft has released an updated version of their developer reference for Silverlight 2.0. Around the middle of last year, I posted about the Silverlight 1.1 developer reference. This can be found here: http://se7en.co.nz/cms/… The Silverlight 2.0 developer reference was handed out at Mix ’08 so if you didn’t get a copy or didn’t attend you can download and print your own. Over the last year, Silverlight has grown to become a very powerful plugin for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web. The reference...