topic Re: Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight

AnilCelik1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:30:38 GMT

Hello All,

I am pretty aware that with given opportunities it's not possible to publish Vehicle Routing Problem Solver(VRPS) into Silverlight application. (Or Am I mistaken?) I just wonder if there is any other option to make it work such as coding a runtime with the help of ArcEngine / ArcObjects? If yes, how?

Or If there is a super-sonic example of the miracle where VRPS and Silverlight comes together?

Or Am I just mistaken about the whole question and its answer? I'm not a developer. I am an Analyst and using all these tools in ArcMap but I support a team of developers and we are a little bit stuck with this problem.

Thank you in advance.
Anil.

Re: Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight

PaulLeedham — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:12:28 GMT

Have you seen this?:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#Routing

Re: Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight

AnilCelik1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:31:29 GMT

Yes, but this is completely different. I was asking for the tool "Vehicle Rooting Problem Solver" tool under Network Analyst Extension.

Esri Silverlight API supports directly tools such as:

Route
Service Area
Closest Facility

but it does not support

OD Cost Matrix
Vehicle Route Problem Solver
Location-Allocation.

I just wonder if there is an in-direct way to make VRPS in Silverlight.

Re: Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight

dotMorten_esri — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:08:02 GMT

If you can expose this as a GP Tool, you can call it from Silverlight using the Geoprocessing task.

Re: Vehicle Routing Problem Solver - Silverlight

AnilCelik1 — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:25:46 GMT

Thanks a lot for the tip. But I'm pretty new at whole developing thing and I would be really happy if you know some good source for reading about "exposing a tool".