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...

Ben Riga has recorded a great episode of Lesson Learned where he chats with Rex Hansen. In this episode of Lessons Learned I chat with Rex Hansen of ESRI.  Rex works on MapIt; a product for visualizing enterprise data on maps.  This was recently released as a on-premises product that enables developers to work with the tabular and spatial data in SQL Server 2008 and integrate that data with maps on ArcGIS online and Bing Maps. ESRI MapIt was announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Business Partner Conference 2009. This latest product offering from ESRI is a combination of software and online...

For those wanting to get started with ESRI MapIt 1.1, there is now a step-by-step guide available. This guide comes bundled with everything you need including detailed instructions and screenshots. I wrote up post when MapIt was released around installation. You can find this here: http://geo.geek.nz/development/… This guide is meant to help new users become familiar with MapIt by understanding some of the common workflows associated with viewing your business data on a map.  The guide is split into four sections: Importing your business data to SQL Server 2008 Spatially enabling SQL Server...

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...

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 is a new product offering for those that want to integrate rich mapping functionality into their SharePoint sites. 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 geographically can be extraordinarily beneficial, as it has the power to reveal...