topic WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format? in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format?

MarkPing — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:59:40 GMT

I have a map service on the desktop that's using pre-generated cached tiles. Right now, the tiles are in exploded form, which is a huge number of files. So I say to myself, "self, I should be using the new 'compact' tile format." It's easy to generate, but I can't find any documentation at all on how to use it.

While offline, my program gets the ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer_TileLoading event and can use the exploded files (using layer/row/column). How do I convert this logic into using the compact cache?

I can't find anything in the forums/ online docs /etc on this.

Re: WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format?

dotMorten_esri — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:51:45 GMT

AFAIK the compact cache format is not documented publicly - at least not yet. You might want to ask in the server forum about the compact cache format.

Re: WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format?

MarkPing — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:03:40 GMT

I figured it wasn't documented, but I was hoping for an interface class, etc. in the framework to access to compact format. Nothing like that?

Re: WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format?

davidrenz — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:56:22 GMT

Mark,

did you ever figure this out?
am in the same boat and would rather use the compact cache.

thanks
david

Re: WPF access of image tiles in bundle (compact) format?

MarkPing — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:11:05 GMT

Yes, I met Morten at the dev summit and he sent me some code (first in javascript, then his own code in C#). I think he's made it public, but I'll double-check with him. Ah, here it is released to the public:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=04f934a3a2d4483bb3126c199d6ed077