Comments on: What is new in ArcGIS 9.3.1

By: Rich Daniels

Rich Daniels — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:39:59 +0000

The internal build number for 9.3.1 is actually 9.3.3000 while 9.3 sp 1 was something like 9.3.1.1800.

The public version numbers are no longer correlated with the actual internal build numbers, which is quite confusing to all. Hopefully with 9.4 they will have the build numbers sorted out, since they will be rebuilding all dll’s.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:40:49 +0000

I have been closely following the ArcGIS for AutoCAD development into it’s most recent incarnation – build 200. While I, as a GIS user, have been impressed, our AutoCAD users are less impressed. There are still issues with slow refresh and query processing. While it has promise, it has room to improve.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:35:18 +0000

Just curious if anyone would know if the documentation for 9.3 in regards to the web adf has improved at all?

Also, sorry if this is not in the proper place.

Thanks,

By: Bender

Bender — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:20:33 +0000

Aaaaaargh. Confusion all around. All the .NET libraries right now have version number 9.3.1. Will they get version number 9.3.1.1? 9.3.2? Will there be a SP2 for 9.3.0 or a SP1 for 9.3.1 in the future?

And why is MXD not enough for AGS? Why doesn’t AGS transfer MXD to MSD internally before it serves that map?

And why do they slow down ArcIMS to get the same performance results on AGS? *veryveryveryevilgrin*

By: MicahWilli

MicahWilli — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:33:04 +0000

@Leo: “complete definition of all the maps and layers in XML”

So ArcGIS Server will be able to used optimized MXD documents translated into XML, Right?

Maybe they could call it ARCXML….wait. I mean ArcXML 2.0

@James: “Yes, the 9.3.1 upgrade would have been a â€œservice packâ€ last year”
Then they will no longer provide service packs?

By: Shrek

Shrek — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:36:10 +0000

“Or, do you mean the ability to run a 32-bit application on a 32-bit OS?”

Of course, should read “32-bit application on a 64-bit OS”.

By: JW

JW — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:24:17 +0000

bookmark this thread for future reference in a few months.

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:09:43 +0000

Just for clarification:
MSD stands for Map Service Definition and contains the complete definition of all the maps and layers in XML.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:51:33 +0000

If anyone’s interested, here’s the forum post I dropped on January 19th asking a similar question (and referencing the same “What’s Coming” document.

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=1696&t=271756&mc=3

James, thanks for the first concrete info yet on the MSD format. All I know is that any format that optimizes may perhaps speed up initial display and refresh, which are my users favorite topics of discussion.

Cheers,
-Matt

By: James Fee

James Fee — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:34:21 +0000

This is news to me. As far as I know, only ArcSDE is 64-bit.

I would think this would be front page news if it was true.