The Spatial Miscellany

It’s that time of year again, the Developer Summit and a trip to Palm Springs are just around the corner. The Q&A has just been posted on esri.com, here is one interesting question…”Will there be a replacement for MapObjects?”

For anyone not able to make it out to California, lots of sessions from the Dev Summit last year are available online as videos on the EDN website.

At work we’ve been busy starting to prepare for the Developer Summit next month. I’ll be helping to deliver two sessions on ArcGIS Explorer (AGX), one that will look at ‘best practices’ when working with AGX, the other taking more of a ‘deep dive’ into developing custom tasks with the API. We’re still figuring out exactly which topics we’ll look at in each of the sessions, but I suspect the ‘best practices’ session will consider aspects of an enterprise AGX deployment, perhaps looking at issues like:

• Configuring an AGS home server
• Deploying AGX and custom tasks
• How to overcome known issues

Then in the deep dive I guess we’ll open up Visual Studio, get coding and build some custom tasks; pass on some tips and tricks we’ve picked up whilst working with the API and hopefully get you thinking how you can leverage custom tasks and AGX in your business.

For anyone not able to make it out to California, lots of sessions from the Dev Summit last year are available online as videos on the EDN website. It’s not quite you tube, but you won’t get fired for browsing at work!

I picked up the Palm Springs wind turbines, as a backdrop for the dev summit logo, from desertgirl over at Flickr

Personally I’m a big fan of Firefox, but for any ESRI developers out there who use IE7, I thought I’d share this tip I got from Chris this morning. You can add EDN as a search engine to your browser! To configure this navigate to this Microsoft URL, accessible from the ‘Find More Providers…’ option on the IE7 menu illustrated below:

On the panel shaded yellow, on the right hand side of the page (see graphic below), paste the following URL in Step 3:


http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=search.results&c_2_a=on&dl_1=on&sa=2&q=TEST


…and give the search engine an appropriate name, e.g. EDN, in step 4.





Click install and away you go, typing ‘ITopologicalOperator’ in your IE search box will bring back all the relevent EDN help topics.