topic How to get the mapscale using ArcGIS API for WPF in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242615#M6289 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please advise me how to get the mapscale of the Map using ArcGIS API for WPF. Or how to get the same from the ScaleBar control of ArcGIS API for WPF. This is very urgent.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:01:45 GMT SolidSmoke 2010-07-04T07:01:45Z How to get the mapscale using ArcGIS API for WPF https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242615#M6289 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please advise me how to get the mapscale of the Map using ArcGIS API for WPF. Or how to get the same from the ScaleBar control of ArcGIS API for WPF. This is very urgent.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:01:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242615#M6289 SolidSmoke 2010-07-04T07:01:45Z Re: How to get the mapscale using ArcGIS API for WPF https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242616#M6290 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Map.Resolution is giving the map resolution on map units per pixels.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>From this resolution you can calculate the scale.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For example, if your map units are feet and your device is 96 dpi,&nbsp; the map scale is map.Resolution(feet/pixel) * 12(in/foot) * 96(pixel/in).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:16:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242616#M6290 DominiqueBroux 2010-07-04T15:16:23Z Re: How to get the mapscale using ArcGIS API for WPF https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242617#M6291 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>See the scale discussion in the class reference for the Map class:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/apiref/topic380.html">http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/apiref/topic380.html</A></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:59:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/how-to-get-the-mapscale-using-arcgis-api-for-wpf/m-p/242617#M6291 dotMorten_esri 2010-07-05T14:59:08Z