Monthly Archives: February 2006

Direct SQL Access to ArcSDE Data

For some time we’ve been working with SDE’s multi-version views in order to allow direct SQL access to versioned data stored in ArcSDE. We’ve used this exclusively for reporting, and it has worked really well. We’ve got a new project … Continue reading

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CAPTCHA Image Problem in dasBlog

This is weird. On my development system, the Captcha images show up when adding comments into dasBlog. However, on this live site, they do not. No errors, but also no images. I have no idea what’s gone wrong, and I … Continue reading

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Updated Blog Skin…

Just updated the blog skin to keep with the theme on the main part of the site. With this, I think I’m finally done with the main parts of my site update – still adding content into the main area, … Continue reading

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Developer Fundamentals: Getting your Objects Oriented…

Time for another dose of developer zen. This time I’ll try to take a quick look at OOP (object oriented programming) and some issues which can occur if you are transitioning from procedural languages (AML) or pseudo OOP languages (VB6 … Continue reading

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Free APress eBooks on COM and .NET Interop…

While reading Jackie Goldstein’s blog on .NET and “stuff”, I saw these two free eBooks which would be good reading for the ArcObjects developer community. Descriptions are from the APress Site… COM and .NET Interoperability COM and .NET Interoperability provides … Continue reading

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Issues linking from dasBlog to a “Parent” 2.0 application…

Whoa! I just tried to follow the link to my main page on the previous post, and I got an ASP.NET config error! doh! This is strange because when I hit the page, it will load and run – so … Continue reading

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Emailing Map Images…

So – I need to facilitate emailing a map from a custom .NET ArcIMS site. (built on DotNetNuke – screen shot below)  In .NET we conventiently have the System.Web.Mail namespace and objects to help out with this. It’s almost trivial … Continue reading

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Moving the site to ASP.NET 2.0: Part 4 – It’s done!

It seems that I’ve managed to get it all sorted out, and more or less working. I’ve found a couple of glitches related to the photos area of the site (the URLs are not properly formed – odd because it … Continue reading

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Running dasBlog under ASP.NET 2.0 : Membership & Themes

Just a quick note on some issues I ran into getting dasBlog running in a subfolder under an ASP.NET 2.0 app that uses membership, roles , master pages and themes… The first step to getting dasBlog running under a .NET … Continue reading

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Developer Fundamentals: Introduction

As we see the convergence of IT and GIS, many more traditional GIS users (“GIS Analysts”) and other people are finding themselves faced with creating stable, maintainable GIS applications. To help out, I thought I’d start a series of postings … Continue reading

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