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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:52 AM

Design patterns for Web maps

Web maps often contain a base map, which provides a geographic frame of reference, and operational (or thematic) layers, which show a focused item of interest on top of the base map. A familiar example might be an online mapping service that provides
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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
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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
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:33 AM

An object model diagram for the ArcGIS Server SOAP API

The SOAP API provides a framework for working with ArcGIS Server using SOAP. Each ArcGIS Server service maintains a WSDL (Web Service Description Language) which defines how you can interact with the service using the SOAP API. The WSDL defines a SOAP
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:04 AM

Monitoring your services with a script

Paul Dodd of ESRI Technical Marketing recently posted a utility on ArcScripts that monitors your critical services and will e-mail you if a service goes offline. The Service Monitor script uses a combination of public-domain/freeware utilities and a configuration
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:40 AM

Querying ArcGIS Server Web Services

One of the ways to connect to ArcGIS Server is through Web services. When you make an Internet connection to the server, you will use a URL in this format: http://<server name>/<instance name>/services This is an endpoint to your ArcGIS Server
Posted by Jeremy | 7 Comments