Deploying Silverlight application with RIA services enabled

Deploying a Silverligtht application with WCF services and RIA services can be a time consuming process and may require extensive research on forums and MSDN. Here are just some of the tips I figured out recently. To deploy a Silverlight application with RIA services on Windows 7/Windows 2008, follow the steps outlined below: 1. Run [...]

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Teaching ESRI course

Recently I was teaching a 2 day course ‘Creating effective Web applications using ArcGIS Server’. The course is focused on using ESRI Web mapping APIs which provides developers with mapping, analysis, and data processing tools so they can embed GIS functionality in their Web applications. During the course, students had to make a choice which [...]

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ESRI ArcGIS Server Viewer

  There are many projects for which it is necessary to create a web mapping application, which can combine GIS data from several sources, have different GIS tools, be lightweight and be accessible via standard Web browsers. Previously, to create such an application, GIS developers had to create their own custom GIS tools. However, now [...]

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Visual Studio references

My colleague and I have developed a custom tool (now it is a couple of .dll files) that is supposed to be integrated into an ArcGIS Server web mapping application later. Originally, the tool was developed in MS Visual Studio 2008 with ArcGIS Server Web ADF 9.3.1 installed. Thus, the solution referenced Web ADF .dll [...]

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