Concerned with the process of creating and subsequently modifying and maintaining software and systems.
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AddData tool stop working after Interoperability connection has been used?
Bug in ArcGIS Engine? Has anyone seen this behavior? We get an exception from our ArcGIS Engine test projects after we had been testing the Interoperability connection in ArcEditor.
We had to enable ...
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How to convert GML to features in ArcObjects?
How to convert GML to features and features to GML i ArcObjects?
We are building an application where we want to communicate with a service with GML but natively in our stand-alone application we ...
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How to hide map to print only the legend on a PageLayout?
If I'm printing a Pagelayout, is there any API for hiding the MapFrame or stop it from getting draw on the printout? I would like to only print the Legend on the paper.
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How do i popup a context menu with custom command items in a Select tool OnMouseDown (Right Click) with VB .Net?
This should be simple... I am converting VBA customization to VB .NET in VS 2008 Express Edition.
In VBA i have a custom selection tool. Aside from just selecting features, when OnMouseDown receives ...
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Drawing selection custom selection box - ArcObjects
I have some code that I'm using to selecting features in a certain extent. I already rigged the tool properly, so it selected the objects as needed, but I want to draw interactively the selection box ...
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4answers
882 views
How can I debug a DLL (ArcGIS tool) with VS 2008 Express?
As per ESRI's recommendation I begun the process of converting my existing VBA customization into VB .Net Express edition. I was surprised o realize that debuggin a DLL is not an option in the express ...
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How to unit test ArcObjects with Mocking
I'm a huge fan of unit testing, but still make use of a FGDB to grab features for running unit tests against when using the ArcObjects framework.
Is anyone successfully using mocking against thinks ...
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What are your biggest challenges as a GIS developer?
What are your biggest challenges when developing GIS software?
Is it coding? Is it understanding cartography/geography/etc concepts (like projections)? Or other difficulties?
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Disadvantages to ESRI Plug-In Data Sources
I wanted to know what disadvantages ESRI plug-in data sources have when compared to custom layers. I am looking to implement a fairly large (in terms of average dataset size) read-only custom type ...