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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:19 PM

Happy New Year from the Geodatabase Team

2008 was an exciting year for the team, one of the highlights was launching this blog during the 2008 Developer Summit. Since then the team has enjoyed exploring this new medium by sharing their knowledge with geodatabase users through various posts.
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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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Monday, December 08, 2008 1:04 PM

Tips for using color correction on raster datasets

Color correction is a new feature that is offered at ArcGIS 9.3. We’ve been getting some questions about what it is and how to use it, so I talked to the raster team and they helped put this post together. Color correction can be applied during a mosaicking
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:15 AM

Geodatabase replication and compress

There is new documentation available which talks about some best practices when using the compress command while also employing geodatabase replication. Compress is a process run periodically by an ArcSDE administrator to reduce the size of the geodatabase
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:59 PM

Podcast on Migrating to the Geodatabase now available

To follow up on our last post, this is just a heads up to tell you that Derek Law’s podcast for Migrating to the Geodatabase is now online. The podcast talks about how to migrate existing data into the geodatabase. Derek goes over migration details for
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:15 PM

Migrating your existing data into the Geodatabase

While I was at the user conference earlier this year I was getting a lot of questions about migrating to the geodatabase from other data formats. I talked it over with Derek Law and he thought he’d make a podcast about it (we’ll link to that podcast when
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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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Monday, October 13, 2008 4:05 PM

New help topics provided on geodatabase replication

More information on geodatabase replication has recently been added to the help system and to KB articles. This should help address some of the more commonly asked questions. The following describes the new information and where to find it: Replicating
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 8:24 PM

Do the new reconcile options work against older releases of ArcSDE geodatabases?

This was a question I got from a friend in tech support the other day and it's a pretty good one. Short answer is yes, here's why: At 9.2 we added a number of different reconcile options offering users more flexibility when reconciling versions in an
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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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Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:04 AM

Working with the Connect and Disconnect commands when editing a Geometric Network

The following post was contributed by Craig Gillgrass a product engineer on the geodatabase team who spends the lion’s share of his time working with geometric networks. The topic of when to use the Connect and Disconnect commands when editing geometric
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Friday, September 12, 2008 11:51 AM

ArcGIS Image Server vs ArcSDE - Comparison of managed raster datasets

Given the response to our last raster post and the interest in image server, I talked with the Raster team to see if we could do a follow up post which compared storing rasters in a geodatabase to using image server. Melanie Harlow, a product engineer
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Monday, September 08, 2008 2:34 PM

New Error Reporting in ArcGIS 9.3

One of the new capabilities in ArcGIS 9.3 is the ability to send error reports to ESRI any time that ArcGIS fails. We thought we’d try to explain our reasons for adding this capability to our software and what it can do to help us build more stable, robust
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