Monthly Archives: March 2008

Data binding is a really handy way to fill list controls with values from some data source – usually a database, but it can come from almost anywhere. However, there are times when you may want your list box to … Continue reading →

Just a quick note about some updates to the Virtual Earth Tile Server code base. You can grab the latest code from the Subversion repository (http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/arcdeveloper/tileserver). Note: This update will require some configuration changes, but I think they are well … Continue reading →

Could anyone who is using the ArcGIS Server Virtual Earth Tile Server code please shoot me an email or drop a note in the comments. ESRI is preparing a press release about the Code Challenge winners, and they asked for … Continue reading →

Dev Summit 2008 is now over and done. Great to see so many old friends and meet tons of new ones. This conference is “the” event for developers working with the ESRI product line, so if you could not make … Continue reading →

Official Line: “The .NET ADF is a hybrid platform – mix of server side and client side development environment.” Built on ASP.NET Ajax, but still supports the ASP.NET Callback model for backward compatibility. As a quick aside – Art Haddad … Continue reading →

So, despite completely spacing the voting, I just walked into the Keynote session to see my name up on the big screen winning second place. Wow. I’m totally surprised, and honored. Thanks to everyone who voted for the Virtual Earth … Continue reading →

Yesterday I focused on the REST, and Javascript API’s, and today’s task is to get the skinny on the re-vamped .NET ADF. In talking to some folks, apparently the .NET ADF includes a Javascript API based on the Microsoft Ajax … Continue reading →

The Javascript API is based on Dojo. ESRI has created some dijits for a map, and the basic pattern looks really similar to the Virtual Earth maps. The Google Maps extended is just more javascript which extends the base GoogleMaps … Continue reading →

Ah yes… a little author-publish-consume love from to start this session… REST 101 with Keyur Shah It’s all about addressable resources – Urls point to resources. We use use standard HTTP Verbs – GET, POST etc. Self-descriptive messages – all … Continue reading →

I don’t have the WEP key yet… so not on the fly updates… This is just a dump of notes taken on the fly – I’ll be talking to people later and getting more details on a lot of this. … Continue reading →