Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

To All ArcSDE Users: My organization is in the process of upgrading the Oracle database from 10g to 11g.  As a result the Direct Connection information will need to be changed on tens of thousands of connections within our mxds, because the Service parameter needs to be changed from sde:oracle10g to sde:oracle11g. In order to avoid this vast amount of work in the future, I was wondering if this information can be stored as an Environmental Variable that would be read in when the mxd is opened up.  In this way, when my organization upgrades the Oracle database in the future, only the Environmental Variable would need to be modified. Any help or hints are greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance. ... View more

To All Flex API Developers: I have a Reverse Proxy environment setup to allow a GIS web application to be accessible to the general public.  Using the FlexViewer, I needed to use the crossdomain.xml file to allow the web application through the Reverse Proxy server. My question is do I need to also use a crossdomain.xml file when I am using the Flex API? Any help or hints are greatly appreciated.  Thanks. ... View more

To All ArcGIS Developers: I have watched an ESRI Deployment video as well as read ESRI v10 Resource Help and I created a bat file as follows which should just register a dll on a machine where ArcGIS Desktop is installed: C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcGIS\bin\ESRIRegAsm.exe C:\GIS_Testing\Test_Editor\Register_Testing\County.GIS.TestEditor.dll /p:desktop When I run this bat file a dialog box pops up asking me which Registered ArcGIS installation I want to register this dll with.  I thought I already specified this option with the "/p:desktop" parameter.  Why is this option ignored? I first ran the following bat file to create a reg file to be installed with the custom application: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\RegAsm.exe C:\GIS_Testing\Test_Editor\Register_Testing\County.GIS.TestEditor.dll /p:desktop /codebase /regfile:C:\GIS_Testing\Test_Editor\Register_Testing\County.GIS.TestEditor.dll.reg The dialog box also pops up here asking which Registered ArcGIS installation I want to register this dll with?  Again I had supplied this parameter so I do not understand why the software is still asking me for this information? Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.  Thanks. ... View more

To All ArcGIS Developers: I have taken over the editing of a .NET application that I need to upgrade to work in v10.  The exe file from the code currently works in ArcGIS v9.3.1. When I open the sln in Visual Studio and check the references it says that it can not find this dll.  Does anyone know where I would find this dll as I thought Visual Studio is able to find references on the development machine?  I have the Desktop Developer kit and VBA Developer Resources installed on this machine. Any help or hints are greatly appreciated.  Thank you. ... View more

I really like the new Basemap layer object in ArcGIS v10, but I would like to have more control over clearing the cache. In this case I would like to be able to select the layers whose cache I would like to clear. Every week I clear the cache for layers that have been updated over the weekend.  All other basemap layers that are static have also had their cache cleared, so the layers are again dynamic the first time I use them.  This occurs every week, so my map layers are slower at the beginning of the week until the basemap layers are cached once I view them in ArcGIS Desktop. The ability to select the layers whose cache should be cleared would allow me to always have the static layers cached, so this weekly slowdown would not occur. ... View more

Create a configuration variable in the Caching Process, that allows the user to determine the size of the supertile to render.  In this way the user could determine the largest item and create the supertile based on the size of this item. My organization tried to use a cached mapservice which included parcels, but there were 100s if not 1000s of duplicate labels.  It seems like this could have been prevented, if the supertile could have been enlarged to encompass the largest parcel in this layer (or at least signicantly larger than the existing supertile to drastically reduce the duplicate labeling). The workaround to this is the creation of annotation which would change when the parcels change, so it would need to be updated on a weekly basis.  It seems a configurable supertile size would solve this problem. ... View more

I have recently began testing the installation and use of ArcGIS 10 for my organization.  I was unpleasantly surprised to see that the metadata and its associated tools have been drastically changed.  I can no longer view many of the metadata elements that were easily accessed through ArcCatalog.  ESRI has migrated to the metadata to only ArcGIS metadata format. I am requesting that the option to use FGDC format for metadata still be made available for users who are accustomed to that format. ... View more