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I'm creating a custom ArcToolbox tool in C# .NET in ArcGIS 10 SP2. Though I seem to be having two issues which maybe related:

Firstly, my tool is run as a background task i.e. the GP dialog does not show, instead the progress bar displays on ArcMap's status bar. Can I get the GP progress pop up dialog to display instead when my GP tool is executed?

Secondly, I want to use IGPUtilities3:AddToMap or IGPUtilities3:GetMap() in the execute method of the GPFunction class but neither work. Either my dataset doesn't get added or GetMap() return null. If I check the InApplication or CanAddToMap properties they return false. I'm just doing a IGPUtilities3 utils = new GPUtilitiesClass.

I guess it hasn't tied into the ArcMap application but how do I fix this in a GPFunction class?

Thanks Rob

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How exactly do you execute your tool? The InApplication always returns true for me inside ArcMap or ArcCatalog – Petr Krebs Nov 22 '11 at 16:53
This is what I found weird! I run it inside ArcMap. So double click on the tool from the ArcToolbox window. Have you run any custom GP tools since the upgrade to ArcGIS 10? – Rob Nov 22 '11 at 16:55

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