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Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:47 PM

Deconstructing the map cache tiling scheme (Part II): Working with map caches programmatically

This post explains ways to access cached map service tiles programmatically. This is useful if you don’t have access to a Web ADF Map control but you still want to quickly retrieve map images for a certain area. Another reason to retrieve tiles programmatically
Posted by sterlingdq | 6 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 8:49 AM

Optimizing your web services by avoiding per-request impersonation

Here’s a tip that can improve your ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .Net Framework performance if your web services are receiving many requests over an extended period of time. When someone makes a request from one of your web services, the web server
Posted by sterlingdq | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:43 AM

ArcGIS Server Code Challenge offers cash prizes for best original code samples

This week, ESRI announced this year’s ArcGIS Server Code Challenge . If the developer community decides that you’ve submitted one of the top three original code samples, you'll win a cash prize! First Place—$15,000 Second Place—$7,500 Third Place—$2,500
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:44 AM

Changing the transparency of GeoprocessingTask results in a Map

Rex Hansen contributed this discussion about working with results of the .Net Web ADF GeoprocessingTask programmatically: An ArcGIS Server geoprocessing service can contain server tools which generate feature output (e.g. feature class, feature layer,
Posted by sterlingdq | 1 Comments
Friday, January 04, 2008 3:40 PM

Updating your map caches automatically: The key to caching dynamic data

For the fastest performance of your ArcGIS Server map services, we recommend that you use map caching wherever it’s appropriate. A map cache is a picture of your map at one point in time. Map caches are obviously appropriate for maps that don’t change
Posted by sterlingdq | 10 Comments