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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:20 AM

Creating a DHTML scale bar with the .NET Web ADF

At the 9.3 release, the .Net Web ADF’s JavaScript library exposes a lot of logic to the client side, allowing you to create a more responsive UI without the need for making calls back to the server. You can get the Web ADF JavaScript library help on the
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Friday, October 24, 2008 4:09 PM

The ArcGIS API for Flex 1.0 has been released

The ArcGIS API for Flex is a powerful framework for building rich internet applications (RIAs) on top of ArcGIS Server that look good, run fast and are fun to use. The Flex Resource Center includes help and samples for the API and is part of the ArcGIS
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:29 AM

Using Dojo dijits with the ArcGIS JavaScript API

A nice thing about the ArcGIS JavaScript API being built on top of the Dojo toolkit is that you can use Dojo widgets, or "dijits", to add prepackaged user interface components to your applications. Dojo has a bunch of existing dijits you can choose from
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Friday, October 17, 2008 2:48 PM

Tips for choosing a cache image format

We often receive questions about which image format is most appropriate for ArcGIS Server map caches. In response we recently added the following information to the topic Choosing Cache Properties in the ArcGIS Server 9.3 Web Help. Your choice of cache
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:13 AM

Live User Sites page shows applications built with ArcGIS Server

We often blog about the bits and pieces of what you can do with ArcGIS Server, but it’s really inspiring to see some finished applications that put it all together. ESRI’s new Live User Sites page is a gallery of public-facing ArcGIS Server applications
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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:28 PM

Using Gears in a .NET Web ADF application

HTML 5 introduces offline storage support which allows the browser to serve up web pages and other data locally without having to access the Internet. Some newer browser versions (Safari 3.1/Firefox 3) offer built-in support for offline storage while
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:44 AM

Creating an ArcGIS Server Java custom security store

ArcGIS Server at 9.3 introduces Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to secure capabilities published by the GIS Server. ArcGIS Server comes with a default embedded database system to maintain all user and role information. ArcGIS Server for Java provides
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Friday, October 03, 2008 10:28 AM

Working with custom renderers in the .NET Web ADF

The Web ADF allows you to go beyond the default symbols for graphics layers by creating custom renderers. This post will show how to create custom renderers and apply them to FeatureGraphicsLayers using the IRenderer interface. The IRenderer interface
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:01 PM

ArcGIS Server 9.3 Nationwide Seminar Series occurring now

ESRI has been working on two, half-day ArcGIS Server 9.3 Seminars . These seminars started September 23rd and are taking place through November within the U.S. This is a great opportunity to see how to implement ArcGIS Server to its fullest capabilities.
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