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...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.2 is now available for download! This can be downloaded from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. This is a quality release that contains a set of updates and fixes. There have been a bundle of bug fixes as well as a number of new features, enhancements and changes. Updates/enhancements include: The Standard and Showcase Silverlight templates are now integrated with Visual Web Developer Express 2008.    A new event handler has been added to feature layers to listed for updates. The UpdateChanged event will fire when the all graphic...

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...

As Microsoft PDC 2009 kicked off, the final build of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF 1.1 was made available for download. This can now be downloaded from the ESRI Resource Centre for ArcGIS Server. The API includes a set of feature, functionality, and integration enhancements. This feature packed releases ships as a setup executable which you can quickly and easily use to install and configure the assemblies, components and templates with Microsoft Expression Blend 3 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. There have been a bundle of bug fixes as well as a number of new features, enhancements...

Many users wonder how to go about creating web mapping applications. Powerful web mapping applications! Well now you will be able to tune into an ESRI Live Training Seminar and get started using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. Public demand is increasing for Web maps that can tell interesting stories and communicate important information quickly. ESRI will host a live training seminar this month that will teach Web application developers the fundamentals of designing fast, rich, and interactive mapping applications using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. As part of a press...

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...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF Toolkit is now available as an open source project on Codeplex. The project contains the source for the ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Toolkit.dll and is available for use under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) agreement.  This source will be very helpful if you are customizing or extending the existing controls or if you are building your own mapping tools from scratch. The download includes C# code and XAML for a set a widgets which are designed to work with the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF map control. This is really going to open up the door...

The ESRI International User Conference 2009 has kicked off and to go with this has been the official launch of the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverilght/WPF 1.0 was made available on the weekend. Information about this can be found here: http://geo.geek.nz/esri/… With the official launch, a new press release has been published. Developers of desktop and Web applications can now deliver rich mapping and geographic information system (GIS) content with the release of ESRI’s ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF. They can combine GIS-based Web...