topic Re: Adding WMS Service in ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight Questions

Adding WMS Service

jayshukla — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:23:52 GMT

Hello There,
Is there a way to add a wms image service in basemap gallery?
Thanks
Jay

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:37:06 GMT

Hi Jay,

No, only ArcGIS Server Cached (Tiled) map services, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap are supported in the Basemap gallery. You can add WMS layers if you like, though. See our Add WMS Layer sample: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/samples/start.html

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

jayshukla — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:28 GMT

Hi Katy,
I did try to add this as a layer and after specifying login/pwd, it does seem like it is processing but it doesn't add anything? Here is the wms image service that I am trying to add:

http://www.valtus.ca/wms/servlet/wmsserver?

Appreciate any feedback.
Thanks
Jay

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:04:55 GMT

Hi Jay - tough to say on this one. Can you step through the code and check that the wmsLayer.Layers property is getting set correctly? Since the ability to add a WmsLayer comes from the main ArcGIS API for Silverlight, you could also try looking through the SL API forums?

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:55:59 GMT

Hi Jay,

Not sure if you sorted this out, but wanted to let you know that if you are using the sample code we provide, try changing wmsLayer.SetValue(MapApplication.LayerNameProperty, layerName); to MapApplication.SetLayerName(wmsLayer, layerName); At least this should make sure it shows up in the Map Contents if it is being added to the map. Otherwise, with the former, you need to explicitly specify the ID on the wmsLayer.

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

jayshukla — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:08:27 GMT

Hi Katy,

Just wanted to let you know that I am using Builder to add this wms layer, not doing any coding for this. I will into and see what I can get from SL API forum. I still think this is a relevent issue (Builder) that will need resolution.

Thanks
Jay

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:46:43 GMT

Oh, no, you'll need to have a custom add-in and add the wms layer programmatically. It can't be done through the Builder Browse panel. You can use the sample here: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/samples/start.html (It's in the Toolkit section). Let me know if you have questions on this.

Edit: A non-programmatic workaround might be to create a web map in ArcGIS Online that contains the wms layer and then open that in Builder.

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

CourtneyBrozovsky — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:26:58 GMT

Hi Katy,

I'm having a similar issue. I am trying to add at least two WMS layers to my web application that I'm building with ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight. I've dabbled with trying to program an add-in but I'm not certain how to begin with this. The WMS's are not affiliated with our office, so I don't dare post them on ArcGIS Online. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

-Courtney

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:56:20 GMT

Hi Courtney,

If you are interested in pursuing the add-in path, you can use the Add WMS Layer sample from the Samples page almost exactly as-is.

Navigate to the Samples page (http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/samples/start.html), expand the Toolkit heading at the bottom, and click Add WMS Layer.

In the upper-right corner of the sample, click Download Sample. This downloads the sample in a zip file. Extract the files and open the resulting AddWMSLayer.sln in Visual Studio.

Make a few small changes to the existing code as follows:

Open the AddWMSLayerDialog.xaml.cs file (code-behind file)

Locate the line of code to "Supply the Url to the proxy." Change this to the proxy of the WMS layer server, or if you are unsure, you can comment that line out for now.

Remove the line that says "wmsLayer.SetValue(MapApplication.LayerNameProperty, layerName);" and replace it with "MapApplication.SetLayerName(wmsLayer, layerName);". (Note - we'll be updating this in the online sample soon)

Build the solution (Build>Build Solution).

Open your Application Builder application and add" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/help/index.html#/Extending_the_ArcGIS_Viewer_for_Silverlight/017700000006000000/]add the add-in via the Settings menu.

Add" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapps/silverlightviewer/help/index.html#/Adding_and_managing_tools_and_toolbars/017700000035000000/]Add the tool to a toolbar.

Click the tool on the toolbar to open the dialog, enter the path to the WMS Layer, and click OK.

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

CourtneyBrozovsky — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:18:22 GMT

Hi Katy,

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, when I extract the zipfile I do not get a .sln file. (I'm using Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express). I've tried editing the xaml.cs file but there was no button or menu to be found that said "build" on it. Any ideas?

-Courtney

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:12:22 GMT

Hi Courtney,

When you extract the zip file, the folder structure should initially look like the attached screenshot. You're not seeing this?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12460[/ATTACH]

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

CourtneyBrozovsky — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:40:01 GMT

After extracting it to a less messy folder I was able to see the same output. However, I get errors when I try to open the .sln.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12461[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]12462[/ATTACH]

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:28:32 GMT

My apologies, Courtney, for not catching this sooner - you need Visual Web Developer Express, not Visual C# Express.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-web-developer-express

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

jayshukla — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:00:34 GMT

Hi Katy,
I was trying to download the sample from the link but it says "Service Unavailable". I have tried this twice now so wanted to check if there is any issue.

On your suggestion for ArcGISonline option, I did try that but didn't get far with this. While creating the map, it does accepth the URL but it doesnt ask me to specify login/pwd and eventully it doesnt show in the map. This is a secured service.

Thanks
Jay

Re: Adding WMS Service

jayshukla — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:33:02 GMT

Hi katy,

My quetion is slightly different now. It turns out that I was trying to add is an ArcIMS service not an WMS service. Please let me know if the approach above would still work?
Thanks
Jay

Re: Adding WMS Service

KatherineDalton — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:09:12 GMT

Hi Jay,

Apologies for that; I'm not sure why but I think our samples page went down for a bit. It should be back up and running now.

We do not support adding an ArcIMS layer out of the box. I think you can still use the WMS sample as a start if you want to write a custom tool to do it. Take a look at this forum and see what you think: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/15810-ArcIMS-Service-in-ESRI-SIlverlight-API

Katy

Re: Adding WMS Service

AaronKreag — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:34:59 GMT

Courtney Smith,

I was getting the same or similar errors just a little bit ago.

Here is what fixed it.

Update Visual Studio Web Express 2010 if needed.
Make sure that Silverlight 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 are installed from microsoft.
Download and Install the Silverlight 5.0 SDK from microsoft.
Download/Install the Silverlight 5.0 toolkit for Visual Studio web.

Go to the ESRI website and make sure that you have the Silverlight Viewer 3.0.
Then download/install the ESRI Viewer for Silverlight 3.0 SDK.

Once I did all that I rebooted and opened up the .sln file that comes from the ESRI sample download, it all loaded great.
I edited the code as described in this thread (because its still not correct) and hit build solution, it all built great.

My only issue now is that I cant seem to add or find the "add-in" when going through the Silverlight viewer. I will be working on that issue now.

Cheers
Aaron Kreag

Re: Adding WMS Service

CourtneyBrozovsky — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:25:30 GMT

Thank you very much for your reply, Aaron. I will try this if I am working with the Silverlight Viewer again, but recently I've been running with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Your help is greatly appreciated!

Re: Adding WMS Service

helgesmebye — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:24 GMT

Hi ,

I downloaded the AddWMS sample, did the modifications suggested by Katy and deployed it to my Silverlight Viewer 3.0 map.

It runs fine and add a WMS layer, but I am not able to add two layers the way I would expect.

WMSLayer number two seems to be some kind of clone of the first WMS layer (the name and contet are the same. when I turn off one layer all other WMS layers are also turned off)

First I thought that this was because of the global variable "WmsLayer wmsLayer" in the Addin. I made it non global but it dit not do any difference.

I also tried to debug the code in the viewer that comes with the sample - but the "add wms" button did not start the tool.

How can I add two wms layers to the map (what kind of modifications do I have to do with the addin)?

Thanks,
Helge

Re: Adding WMS Service

helgesmebye — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:20:21 GMT

Hi,

I got it fixed. If the layer is initialized with the same name I get problems. Renaming it in the toc does not help since this is not really the name of the layer.

Giving the layer an unique name solves the problem.

-helge