Monthly Archives: December 2006

[UPDATE: 12/29/06 - Stephan sent me a note re: my incorrect spelling of "choropleth". At this point, I don't have time to change the code and graphics in the post, so just ignore the "l".] As promised in my last … Continue reading →

Many times when creating applications, you’ll need to allow the application to be configured in the deployment environment. One really handy way to facilitate this configuration is via the App.config or Web.Config files. Key/Value Pairs The default config file usage … Continue reading →

Steve of the Sacramento Citron-Pousty’s tagged me for this little disclosure.  1) While programming, I really like to crank trance / techno music. Can’t stand it any other time, but I’ve got a big pile of Paul Oakenfold etc. for hammering … Continue reading →

Not sure who get’s to officially “call” a snowday, but I’ve got 2 feet of snow outside my garage door, and an alley with 3 foot drifts in it, so I’m not going anywhere today! Here are some pics… View … Continue reading →

While we all know that Microsoft/Live/MSN etc are all running on ASP.NET, I was just reading a post on Paul Wilson’s blog, which referred to an earlier post by Scott Guthrie (for those who don’t know, he’s General Manager in … Continue reading →

James has posted a “quick hits” rundown of ESRI’s white paper on ArcGIS Server licensing, and upgrades for existing users. Give his post and the document a read if you’ve been trying to sort this stuff out. I’m not going … Continue reading →

This weekend I lugged my EDN disks home, installed server, and played around with the Mobile ADF.  While the SmartPhone and PocketPC options are interesting, I’ve tried to do complex data entry on small form factor devices, and Tablet PC’s are simply a better … Continue reading →

Ron Bruder & Derek Swingley pointed out that I had misunderstood the Single vs Multiple database thing, and the relationship to SDE vs DBO owned schema. Since I missed this, and I’ve been using SDE since before they attached “Arc” … Continue reading →

Ran into a problem loading data from a Personal Geodatabase, and thought I’d share the solution. Scenario:Data was coming from ArcSDE on Oracle, exported to a PGDB, and then I’m importing it into ArcSDE on SQL. We had to go … Continue reading →

I needed to investigate the various setup options for using ArcSDE 9.2 with SQL Server 2005. These are condensed notes that I made while checking things out and setting up a few instances. SDE Setup Options There are really three … Continue reading →