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Friday, January 30, 2009 11:59 AM

Application Developers Tuning Tip: Keeping Datasets Open

Opening a dataset such as a table or a feature class from a geodatabase can be an expensive operation. With this in mind, application developers should try to minimize the number of times they open datasets by following these patterns: Keep datasets from
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:36 PM

Using the ComReleaser to manage the lifetime of cursors in .NET

Geodatabase cursors should always be explicitly destroyed in a runtime environment that uses garbage collection. The rule of thumb is to always release a COM object as soon as the application is done using the reference. This is especially important with
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Friday, November 07, 2008 1:33 PM

Object initializers and the Geodatabase API

This post was provided by geodatabase product engineer James MacKay A new approach to initializing objects was introduced at .NET 3.0: object initializers . These allow objects to be instantiated and initialized in a single line, provided the class has
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Monday, October 27, 2008 9:58 AM

List of Useful Developer Samples

Last week I was in Palm Desert at the annual EGUG conference . While sitting in on a presentation I noticed that for a lot of the questions being asked, users were being directed to developer samples found online. I realized that while these samples are
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Monday, October 20, 2008 8:50 AM

Three new How-To articles in Geodatabase SDK

For all geodatabase developers out there, we’ve added three new how-to articles to the online SDK: How to use edit sessions : The in’s and out’s of editing a geodatabase are explained in this article, and supported with several code examples. It includes
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:00 PM

.NET Team adds API Evaluator

A quick post today about a new tool that the .NET team developed. The API evaluator scans your .NET code and generates a complete set of API usage statistics. This is pretty cool if you want to see what APIs are being used most frequently in your applications.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:59 PM

Customizing Table Sorting in the Geodatabase

This post was written by James MacKay, a product engineer on the geodatabase team who also played the leading role in the "Programming with the geodatabase API" sessions at this years user conference. In ArcGIS there are a number of different ways a column
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Friday, June 06, 2008 1:19 PM

Developer Tips - Using geodatabase methods with conformant array parameters in .NET and Java

This post was written by geodatabase Product Engineer James MacKay. James works on the geodatabase development team and is responsible for a lot of the geodatabase SDK that is generated. There are several methods in the Geodatabase API that use conformant
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