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...

About a month ago I posted information about ArcGIS for Windows Phone and the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone which was coming soon. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/…. Well it’s now here and the the public beta of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone has been made available. We’re proud to announce that the initial beta for version 2.1 of the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone is now available for download on the resource center.  The API is built on the Silverlight framework of the Windows Phone Application Platform which includes existing Microsoft tools and...

Earlier this year Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone at Mobile World Congress 2010. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. For developers, Microsoft Silverlight is the platform for Windows Phone development and as such the ArcGIS API for Windows Phone...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 was released last week. Information on this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… Since the release we have seen the toolkit made available on CodePlex. Information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/…, and a new template gallery which is now live. The template gallery provides a number of templates which you can peruse, view and download for use in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Expression Blend 4.   Seven initial templates have been provided.   The templates are really...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Toolkit is now available on CodePlex. The source code for this toolkit was made available when the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF was released last year and has now been updated with the latest version. This project contains the source code and libraries for the ESRI ArcGIS Silverlight Toolkit SDK. The library is an extension of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™. This library is only an extension of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight™/WPF™, so in order to build a complete web mapping application, you will also need...

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...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 2.0 Release Candidate is now available for download! The release candidate for version 2.0 of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available for download on the ArcGIS Resource Center.   This release is feature complete for version 2.0.  It is important to note that you can install the 2.0 release candidate side-by-side with previous versions of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF.   Keep in mind that to download the API setup, you will need to login to the ArcGIS Resource Center.  Since the ArcGIS API for...

ArcGIS Mapping for Microsoft SharePoint was made available earlier this year to developers. Information around this release can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… Following on from this release, ArcGIS Mapping for Microsoft SharePoint has now been made available to a wider audience. ESRI’s ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint is now available. ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint is a set of configurable mapping components that enables SharePoint administrators or contributors to embed an interactive map within Microsoft SharePoint. Users of the site can quickly discover and exploit the geographic...

The ArcGIS API for Silverlight 2.0 Public Beta has now been made available for download. There were a number of demonstrations and sessions at the ESRI Developer Summit 2010 showcasing the ArcGIS API for Silverlight 2.0 and now you can try it for yourself. Version 2.0 beta of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF is now available for download on the new ArcGIS Resource Center.   This is the first public beta release for version 2.0 that supports new features and functionality included with the ArcGIS Server 10 platform. There are bundles of new features/changes/enhancements in this...

With the release of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.1 and ESRI MapIt 1.1, ESRI Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 1.1 was made available for download. ESRI Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 1.1 was a new product offering for those that wanted to integrate rich mapping functionality into their SharePoint sites. Information on this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… The ESRI Parts leverage the framework SharePoint provides to offer interactive and configurable mapping components that give you a geospatial view of your organization’s data. The ability to visualize data...