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Learn how to take your ArcGIS Survey123 smart form logic to the next level using your own JavaScript functions.

As I promised in my DevSummit 2021 user presentation, here is the follow-up to my presentation with updates regarding the issues which I encountered.

A 30-minute video for getting started with ArcGIS Platform, which is a Platform-as-a-Service for developers.

Earlier this month, Christopher Zent from the ArcGIS Pro SDK team and Robert Burke, Esri Instructor, co-presented the GeoDev Webinar, "ArcGIS Pro SDK for .NET: Extensibility Patterns. Throughout the presentation, attendees can submit their questions. The questions below are the ones we were unable to get to during the webinar. For those we did address, as well as the presentation recording and slides are listed below. Check out what you may have missed!

At the end of May, we hosted a GeoDev Webinar on one of the latest blog posts the came from Kristian Ekenes, who works on the Senior Product Engineer on the ArcGIS API for JavaScript team. He wrote a blog post on Mapping Large Datasets on the Web, and since we thought this would be a great topic to cover more in-depth, we decided to host the same topic as a webinar where attendees could ask questions. There were a lot of good questions that came in but were not addressed during the live Q&A portion of the webinar, so Kristian addresses them below.

For years, arcpy.mapping never had everything I needed to automate my maps.  Finally, arcpy.mp has the ability to manipulate symbols, renderers, legends, and layout elements.  Here are some tips and tricks to bring that functionality into a geoprocessing service.

Chrome extensions are a fun way to implement functionality that is not normally available to a web client app.  Here are some tips and tricks to use the ArcGIS API for JavaScript in a Chrome extension. 

[This was to be my user presentation at the 2020 DevSummit, which was cancelled.]

One feature of VS that I really like is the ability to create project templates. VS2015 included a project template for TypeScript, but it was ugly as sin, and VS2017 offered no replacement.  Sometimes, you just have to get your hands dirty, so I decided to create my own project template from scratch.   Here's how I did it.

Here's a cute trick to update incompatible tile caches on-the-fly as they're opened by an ArcGIS Runtime application.