Comments on: ArcGIS Explorer 480 Released

By: Shail

Shail — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:38:45 +0000

I had one question about the ArcSDE (SQL 05) Layer adding by using SDK.

I am using all the parameters to connect to our local layer from SDE, but it takes forever to get the geometry to AGX. Basically, it crashes.

Any workaround you could recommend for this?

Any parameter I am missing.

If I connect to this layer by going to AGX and adding layer manually, it works ok.

ESRI.ArcGIS.E2API.DatabaseLayer RailRoad = new ESRI.ArcGIS.E2API.DatabaseLayer();
RailRoad.Server = “localhost”;
RailRoad.Service = “8100″;
RailRoad.Database = “GIS”;

RailRoad.Username = “abcd”;
RailRoad.SetPassword(“abcd”);
RailRoad.Dataset = “roads”;
RailRoad.Version = “dbo.DEFAULT”;
RailRoad.Connect(this._taskUI.E2);

if (RailRoad.IsConnected)
{
RailRoad.SymbolName = “White”;
this._taskUI.E2.AddLayer(RailRoad);
}

By: JW

JW — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:01:19 +0000

Just discovered something really stupid and I need a place to rant. AGX doesn’t support Vista x64! What a crock! You can install ArcGIS Desktop on Vista x64, but AGX gives a stupid “your operating system isn’t supported”

Ridiculous.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:00:11 +0000

FYI
Removing Virtual Earth (Beta) seems to solve the crashes I was having.

By: James Fee

James Fee — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:46:23 +0000

@Chris M: The only things I’ve heard is Build 600/700 would be out before the end of the year. 480 was supposed to hit by end of May (eh, close enough) and that was announced at the DevSummit. As for a more specific data for 600, I have yet to see/hear anything.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:41:56 +0000

Does anyone have a rough timeline for when build 600 might be available for the masses as I am real interested in an ESRI 2D viewer, especially one that will access my SDE databases and AGS.

By: James Fee

James Fee — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:30:36 +0000

While the screen shot isn’t 2D, the AGX Blog has some Build 600 info and at least a screenshot that shows the new ribbon interface:

http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/arcgisexplorerblog/archive/2008/04/02/arcgis-explorer-600-a-sneak-peek.aspx

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:56:50 +0000

@Adam – thats great – any links to some screenshots of 2D in action?

Our GIS team all have fixed ArcGIS desktop licenses but there are also around a dozen floating licenses with around 30 people with ArcGIS installed = often there are issues with people not being able to get a license to use ArcGIS. Using something like ArcGIS Explorer in 2D mode would be great for users that simply need to make basic queries on data.

Be great if there was some kind of mxd–>AGX translator (I know you can serve an mxd into AG-Server and add to AGX, but im talking about a bog standard mxd.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:28:21 +0000

Some of you might know this already but the 2D support is there in build 600. They showed it at the Dev Summit in March.

Adam

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:34:07 +0000

We have finally deployed AGX office-wide and it has been received well. Why the heck do you have to do a full uninstall/install instead of just an updated?

SDE works fine for me, however, still no support for relationship classes.

By: Joseph Wallis

Joseph Wallis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:15:05 +0000

sad that it renders a KML faster than a shapefile.