The ArcGIS Server Development Blog has moved

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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

Configuring your server to display a "Data not available" tile for empty map cache areas

Sterling Quinn of the Server team contributed this post on configuring your web server to display custom tiles in areas where you have not yet completed your map cache. At the ESRI Developer Summit, several of you asked how we displayed a “Data

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,

Using custom logos in ArcGIS Explorer

Mark Bockenhauer of the ArcGIS Explorer team contributed the following post on how to display a custom logo in ArcGIS Explorer. It is common with paper maps to display a logo perhaps a company logo or government seal. The same can be done on digital ArcGIS

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

ArcGIS Server Code Challenge

Hey everyone. I hope to see you in Palm Springs at the 2007 ESRI Developer's Summit . If you have not heard already, there is going to be an ArcGIS Server Code Challenge. Give it a shot and let us know if you have any questions. Share your development

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

Embedding globe services within other globes

James posted a comment regarding publishing Globe services with other embedded Globe services. This can be done, but it is not the recommended workflow. Sterling from the Server Dev team wrote up this response. As you create 3D views using ArcGIS Explorer

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