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Questions seeking software recommendations are better asked at the Software Recommendations Stack Exchange or in the GIS Chat Room.

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Permanently reordering fields in data (shp, gdb) without using FME or another ETL tool

I just confirmed that ogr2ogr can do this. Specify your field name order on the -select switch. For instance, if I have a shapefile with two fields, "Name" and "FolderPath" (in that order), but I want …
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Choosing web/mobile mapping API?

The Esri APIs are definitely geared toward working with ArcGIS server but it is technically possible to develop your own server side solution that would work with the client APIs for Esri's REST API. …
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Using Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 for ArcGIS Desktop?

Go with 2010. I don't know any reason you'd pick 2008 over 2010 if you're developing with ArcGIS 10.
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