Comments on: Not everyone uses .NET or Java

By: tarun chatterjee

tarun chatterjee — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:25:14 +0000

hi friends, i want to get concept to attaching library of arcobjects by .net. i want to develop stand alone application with .net. help to get the starting point

By: Sayak Chakraborty

Sayak Chakraborty — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:37:31 +0000

I’m a beginer level programmer in VB.NET,I want to develop ARC INFO with help of VB.NET.

Can Any body having fare idea regarding this are ready to help me?

I am keenly waiting to get reply…………..

By: Paolo Corti

Paolo Corti — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:06:05 +0000

IMHO I think that ArcObject VBA will be the most used way to customize ArcGIS, until we won’t se a Visual Studio .NET For Application embebbed in ArcGIS.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:22:14 +0000

Considering ArcGIS Server and ArcObjects:

What are the top 2 languages I should learn?

Is Python an option?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:31:53 +0000

Josh,

I don’t know of any books that look at VB.NET + GIS specifically. I’d suggest getting a couple of books on VB.NET – personally I like thw Wrox Press books – build a few non-gis apps to get the feel for the language, and then dive into some ArcMap customization, using the ESRI help docs.

Cheers,

Dave

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:20:56 +0000

Excellent discussion- I have basic skills in programming GIS applications with VB6 and I would like to learn VB.NET. Does anyone know of a good VB.NET programming book for GIS application development?? Thank you and best regards,

Josh

By: Ashik

Ashik — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:35:24 +0000

Hi
I am new to gis can i get some sample codes in vb.net for customizing arcmap using arcobjects.I am a beginner.I will be really thankful to you.

regards
ashik

By: glardo

glardo — Sun, 21 May 2006 20:10:38 +0000

While you, ESRI and other mapping vendors were busy migrating to .NET, Microsoft was enhancing their mapping software with features stolen from competitors.

With .NET 2.0, Microsoft once again forced everyone using .NET to rewrite their code. Yes, that’s right, _rewrite_: the ASP.NET 2.0 components replace the old ASP.NET 1.1 components. The 1.1 components are “deprecated” (tossed into the trashbin of software history).

Lather, rinse, repeat. When will developers realize that Microsoft is in business – _your_ business. Continuing to use their software tools guarantees that, if you succeed hugely, Microsoft will take your market away.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:39:37 +0000

@andrew,
“The future is dynamic, non-compiled languages like Python, Ruby, et al.”

I completely agree. I’ve been immersing myself in Ruby (and Rails) for the past several months, and I was already a little familiar with Python. Dynamic languages are, IMO, the future of many types of programming, especially web apps. It’s hard for me to go back to .NET after using Ruby/Rails for a while. I’d love to see ESRI support Ruby, but they probably figure Python is good enough.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:20:51 +0000

I’m not trying to be argumentative, just trying to understand more about what people feel is missing.

Language migration is different from API migration. You see, the example Erin provided: MO vs ArcEngine is a migration choice between ESRI’s APIs that is independant of which programming language is used to exercise that API. You could migrate to ArcEngine and use VB6, VB.NET or C# or something else. Obviously ESRI should be marketing and educating users on how to do that (MO -> Engine) b/c they want to sell you their new API.

I’m just not sure how much they should have to do on the language migration issue when Microsoft and others have created a mini industry on education that already targets the language (VB6 -> .NET) issue.