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August 2007 - Posts

Liven Up Explorer with Live Content

Labor Day Weekend is approaching, there's a heat wave in southern California, and clouds and even some raindrops seem to be all around. A likely escape for a long weekend getaway is one of the nearby National Parks, perhaps Yosemite. But what about the Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:16 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Authoring and Publishing Your Own 3D Buildings for Explorer

We've recently had a couple of questions regarding how to author and publish your own 3D buildings that you can use in Explorer. It's simple to do -- author your map using ArcGIS Desktop , publish/serve it using ArcGIS Server , and then connect to the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:16 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer and OpenGL in Action

In an earlier post we talked about some of the new SDK features in the latest release (Build 410). In that post we mentioned the addition of OpenGL support and included a screenshot showing wind vectors implemented using OpenGL in Explorer. Here's a link Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:12 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Setting Up Your Own Home Server

One of the unique features of ArcGIS Explorer is that you can easily set up your own Explorer home server, and can control everything from the startup banner, the default map, the appearance of the navigator, whether users can add new layers, save a map, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 7:28 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

New Explorer SDK Enhancements (Build 410)

(submitted by Rob Dunfey, ArcGIS Explorer SDK Development Team) The latest release of ArcGIS Explorer includes a host of enhancements to the API, creating new opportunities for custom task developers. The custom task framework genuinely differentiates Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 6:32 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 2 Comments
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New Result View Properties

With the latest release of Explorer (Build 410) you may have noticed some changes in the behavior of results. Results can be used for many things , including navigation or as inputs to another task. You can zoom to a result by double-clicking it, and Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 11:56 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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New Layers Tab on Resource Center

Among the new features in Build 410 is the revamped ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center . The Resource Center now includes a Contents tab that provides easy access to both maps and layers . What's the difference? Well choosing a map will replace your existing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:26 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 1 Comments
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New Release of ArcGIS Explorer Now Available

The ArcGIS Explorer Team is pleased to announce that today, at approximately 12:16 p.m. PST, the newest version of ArcGIS Explorer - Build 410 - was released. If the ESRI servers are your ArcGIS Explorer default servers, the next time you start Explorer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:08 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Explorer and Vista

Recently we've had a few questions and forum posts concerning ArcGIS Explorer and Windows Vista. Please remember that ArcGIS Explorer is not currently certified for Windows Vista, but we'll be doing this soon. If you've been experimenting with Vista already, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:47 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments