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.

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

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

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