Follow-up to Extending the QueryAttributes Task: Zooming to selected features

From Bryan Baker, a product engineer working on the .NET SDK: I wrote an earlier post that showed how to extend the QueryAttributes task so that all features are immediately highlighted. Several users have asked about also zooming to the selected features.

Customizing the Web Editor task

James Goodrich, a developer on the .NET Web ADF team, contributed this information about some Service Pack 2 enhancements to the Editor task: When the Editor task was released at version 9.2 of the Web ADF for the .NET Framework, a common question was

How to track pending tiles and display a busy indicator in a Web mapping application

Rex Hansen contributed this post about how to use some of the enhanced JavaScript in Service Pack 2 to track pending tiles and display a busy indicator (such as an animated "Loading" graphic) over the Web ADF's Map control: As a Web ADF

Using ASP.NET AJAX with the Web ADF

Bryan Baker of the .NET SDK team wrote this great article on integration ASP.NET AJAX with the Web ADF. Microsoft's new ASP.NET AJAX enables developers to refresh portions of a Web page in a relatively simple way. To enable a control to use AJAX,

Working with the Web ADF resources in a custom task at run-time

Rex Hansen of the .NET SDK team wrote this very useful post on accessing the Web ADF components at run-time. When creating a custom task, you may often find it necessary to access Web ADF components (controls, resources, etc.) that share the same Web

Extending the QueryAttributesTask to highlight selected features

Bryan Baker of the .NET SDK team wrote the following great post on extending a task to modify its behavior and then adding that task to the .NET Global Assembly Cache so it can be reused across applications. Note: Also see the follow-up to this post from

ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .Net Framework 9.2 Service Pack 1

Anne Reuland of the Server Development team has contributed the following excellent detailed writeup on what is in service pack 1 for ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .Net Framework 9.2. There’s a very good overview of what’s new in ArcGIS

Antialiasing with multiple cached resources

Combining multiple cached map services is one of the more powerful aspects of the ADF for ArcGIS Server. High performance mapping applications can be built off of multiple fused cached map services combined within the ADF. Lets build on the cached aerial

ArcGIS Server Service Pack 1

ArcGIS Server Service Pack 1 is out and available for download . It has many fixes along with some very key enhancements. One of the biggest enhancements is the ability to create map caches in different image type formats. At 9.2 final you only had the

Using the Callback control framework with a map resource

Let's build on the sample that Ryan put together and use the callback control framework to refresh a map control. In this case we need to send back callback results of the map control to the control being called back to (the callback button). To illustrate

Using the Callback control framework

Ryan Olson of the Web ADF development team contributed the following code sample that demonstrates how to use the callback framework from within the ESRI Web ADF for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This control is very useful for testing things during the

Querying ArcGIS Server Web Services

One of the ways to connect to ArcGIS Server is through Web services. When you make an Internet connection to the server, you will use a URL in this format: http://<server name>/<instance name>/services This is an endpoint to your ArcGIS Server

Publishing and using a geoprocessing model within a map document

One of the exciting new aspects of ArcGIS Server 9.2 is the ability to publish geoprocessing models and scripts to the server. A model can be published either as a tool that can be used directly on top of any map service, or it can be published with an

Configuring accounts and permissions in a distributed installation

Sterling Quinn of the ArcGIS Server team contributed the following post. This information will ultimately end up in the ArcGIS Server Help site in a few weeks. ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft® .NET Framwork has a scalable architecture that allows

Changing zoom direction with mouse wheel

In the ESRI Web ADF for the Microsoft .NET Framework the default behavior for the mouse scroll wheel is to zoom in to the map control as you move the scroll wheel forward. Enter the following code snippet in the Default.aspx after all the Web ADF control