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Is your cache using PNG32 ? If not you won't get nicely antialiased edges ... View more

Silverlight allows you to zoom out further than the tiles are cached at (Flex doesn't). This usually works great, but if your cache doesn't have low-resolution scale levels cached, it can end up loading a large amounts of tiles. I suggest you set the MaximumResolution property on the map or the layer to that of the lowest resolution tile level. ... View more

What version are you using? The map doesn't change the cursor (however it did in a couple very early versions of the API). If the cursor is changing, it's because your app is changing the cursor. ... View more

I would say that the PDF with the SL/Flex comparison is also very biased towards flex and the issues it points out that are with the Silverlight API are long gone today. ... View more

The label is not generated on the fly but is "baked" into the image tiles. So if the image tiles doesn't have chinese labels baked into them, the service can't support it. In this case ArcGIS Online doesn't have any chinese tile services you can use, and it seems neither does Bing on their open imageservice, so you are basically out of luck. You will have to roll your own tile server using ArcGIS Server and your own data. ... View more

You can use the image service identify task for that: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/apiref/ESRI.ArcGIS.Client~ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Tasks.ImageServiceIdentifyTask.html ... View more

I'm afraid you would have to write your own image header parser to do this in Silverlight. I don't think it has the API's necessary to do this (.NET 2.0+ does though). But if you could get over the hump of reading the header, it should be pretty easy from there. This API could perhaps be a good start: http://imagetools.codeplex.com/ ... View more

Just reinstall the ArcGIS Silverlight API. When you run the install, you should see an option to install the templates as well. ... View more

I would highly advise against an approach that involves sending a local path to a server. It could be a gaping security hole that allows a malicious user from browsing the entire file system. ... View more

The difference lies in whether the xaml is parsed as part of the page (where relative makes sense), or whether it's a piece of code that could have been executed from anywhere. ... View more

Bryan you raise a good point. We'll try and make the documentation more clear. If you don't specify a center, the zoom simply happens around the center of the screen. "Center" is the point that everything scales around, ie the center of scaling, where everything expands or contracts around. So in this sense it is a "center". It's just not the center of the map. ... View more

To get a fairly accurate result, you are better off projection your geometry to an Equal Area Projection (for instance 54004) and use that for the area calculation. Most of the projections in use are all introducing enourmous amount of distortion, especially with respect to areas and lengths. So using a projection where relative area is not distorted is one approach often used. ... View more

Perhaps this will help you: http://www.developerfusion.com/tools/convert/csharp-to-vb/ You only need to convert the code behind. The XAML stays the same. ... View more

The limit is at the server end. If you use the .NET server I think the limit is 10 or 20 mb. This can be increased in the web.config for the REST server. I don't recall what the Java Server limit is, but there is a similar default limitation whcih like ASP.NET is also imposed by the webserver. ... View more

Did you install the Blend SDK prior to installing the ArcGIS API ? Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d197f51a-de07-4edf-9cba-1f1b4a22110d&displaylang=en (Note that this is not Blend, but just the SDK. You do get the SDK as part of Blend too though). ... View more