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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:30 PM

Creating a 3D globe cache from a 2D map cache

One purpose of this blog is to share some of the things we’ve learned about our software by using it ourselves. The ArcGIS Online project uses the ArcGIS Server map and globe caching technology. In this post, we share a technique we’ve developed to create
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:30 AM

10 "must read" ArcGIS Server Help topics

Once you know what ArcGIS Server is and you've skimmed the introductory topics in the Help, where's the best place to go for information about how ArcGIS Server works? Following are 10 useful help topics which I recommend for all ArcGIS Server users.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:15 PM

Print Task Sample

In this post, Bryan Baker comments on a new sample you can use to add a Print task to your Web ADF applications: A sample print task for the Web ADF for the Microsoft .NET Framework is now available at the ESRI Developer Network website. This sample allows
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:30 PM

Map rotation support in the Web ADF at SP 2

Rex Hansen wrote this thorough post about the new support for map rotation in version 9.2, Service Pack 2 of the Web ADF for the Microsoft® .NET Framework: ArcGIS Server map services support the ability to serve a rotated data frame (map). In 9.2 SP 2,
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:00 AM

Welcome to the new home of the ArcGIS Server Development Blog!

Welcome to the new home of the ArcGIS Server Development Blog! Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to reference this new location. To sign in to this blog, use your ESRI Global Account . Creating an ESRI Global Account is free. This blog will continue
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:15 PM

Follow-up to Extending the QueryAttributes Task: Zooming to selected features

From Bryan Baker, a product engineer working on the .NET SDK: I wrote an earlier post that showed how to extend the QueryAttributes task so that all features are immediately highlighted. Several users have asked about also zooming to the selected features.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:30 AM

Customizing the Web Editor task

James Goodrich, a developer on the .NET Web ADF team, contributed this information about some Service Pack 2 enhancements to the Editor task: When the Editor task was released at version 9.2 of the Web ADF for the .NET Framework, a common question was
Posted by Sterling | 29 Comments
Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:05 PM

How to track pending tiles and display a busy indicator in a Web mapping application

Rex Hansen contributed this post about how to use some of the enhanced JavaScript in Service Pack 2 to track pending tiles and display a busy indicator (such as an animated "Loading" graphic) over the Web ADF's Map control: As a Web ADF developer working
Posted by Sterling | 18 Comments