topic Re: Labels in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736740#M18889 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>How are you adding labels on your layer?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 May 2011 19:32:29 GMT JenniferNery 2011-05-23T19:32:29Z Labels https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736739#M18888 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi I was wondering if there is an easy way to add a button in the layer list to turn on/off labels? I have 11 layers in my map containing many entries. I would like the user to be able to control when the label is displayed. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 May 2011 14:34:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736739#M18888 AndyBurnell 2011-05-23T14:34:13Z Re: Labels https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736740#M18889 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>How are you adding labels on your layer?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 23 May 2011 19:32:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736740#M18889 JenniferNery 2011-05-23T19:32:29Z Re: Labels https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736741#M18890 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>My labels are turned on through the layer properties in my MXD file. I know that I could create annotation layers but I wanted to keep the web map clean. I was just wondering if there was some control that I could add that would allow this.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736741#M18890 AndyBurnell 2011-05-24T17:48:41Z Re: Labels https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736742#M18891 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Our API does not support labelling and annotations. But you could use GraphicsLayer with MapPoints that use TextSymbol that binds to an attribute </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#AddGraphicsXAML">http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#AddGraphicsXAML</A><SPAN>. If your layer contain polygon, you can use LabelAsync to get a good label position. </SPAN><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#LabelPoints">http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#LabelPoints</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 18:04:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736742#M18891 JenniferNery 2011-05-24T18:04:59Z Re: Labels https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736743#M18892 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you very much for the info and timely responses.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Andy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 May 2011 23:05:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/labels/m-p/736743#M18892 AndyBurnell 2011-05-24T23:05:13Z