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This is likely a bug in the service sample. Could you look into what JSON is being sent? It's likely just a character in one of the strings (layername, description etc) that is not being correctly escaped. ... View more

Is your Silverlight app also hosted on a HTTPS website? Silverlight gets a little picky when trying to talk to HTTPS hosted services. We blogged about this earlier: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2009/08/31/Using-services-across-schemes.aspx This blogpost might also be of interest: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2010/02/15/How-to-use-secure-ArcGIS-Server-services.aspx ... View more

The API's only support point, multipoint, polyline and polygon. A circle can be approximated using a polygon ... View more

Muzammil: I really encourage you to watch the video I linked to in my first reply. I'm covering all these things in that session. ... View more

Because it clusters the features into point locations ... View more

Simply add the "MaintainExtentBehavor" to the map control. This is easiest done in Blend. Find the behavior in the assets tab, and drag it onto the map. ... View more

Are your buildings points? MarkerSymbols can only be used with point layers. If your layer is polygons, use a fill symbol instead. ... View more

First off here's how to add the effect to the entire layer: <esri:GraphicsLayer   >    <esri:GraphicsLayer.Effect>      <DropShadowEffect  BlurRadius="10" Color="Black" Direction="-45" Opacity="0.5" ShadowDepth="10" />    </esri:GraphicsLayer.Effect> </esri:GraphicsLayer> To achieve it on hover, you have to create a custom symbol template, and use the hover visual state storyboard to turn the effect on and off on the element. I suggest you watch our session from devsummit where custom templates and visual states is covered: http://gisupdates.esri.com/video/devsummit2010/DEV80.wmv ... View more

The simplest solution is by far using the built-in editing service in ArcGIS Server v10. The text in your symbol is simply just an attribute you bind into the symbol template. The Feature Service also allows you to define the symbology at the server and push it to the client. I don't see why a feature layer can't be used for "annotations". Just create a new layer, call it annotations, and it's suddenly an annotation feature layer. Or create 3 if you need both point, polyline and polygon. The blogpost doesn't cover SDE storage. The point of the post was to show how to get geometry to the server side. What you want to do with it from there is all up to you. If the blogpost had to cover all the possible storage scenarios, it wouldn't have been a blogpost but a whole book 🙂 ... View more

The geometry classes have DataContracts defined on them so you can simply use the DataContractJsonSerializer ... View more

It's the other way around: Dynamic services are the ones you can run the Identify and QueryTasks against. See: http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/samples/start.htm#QueryWithoutMap http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/samples/start.htm#SpatialQuery http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisserver/apis/silverlight/samples/start.htm#Identify FeatureLayer does not have anything like this. The only thing you get by using FL is direct mouse interaction and having access to all the features in memory on the client. This also means they have to be rendered at the client, and you are in charge of specifying symbology. ArcGIS 10.x will support exposing a subset of the MXD symbology, and FeatureLayer will automatically use that if you don't override the default symbology. ... View more

cgage: Yes it will. However you can use Silverlight 4 with the 1.x builds that were built on SL3. ... View more

WP7 does not support Silverlight assemblies. They have to be specifically compiled for WP7. I'm actually surprised you got as far as you did 🙂 System.Windows.Browser is not even part of WP7. If you are going to the developer summit, look me up and we can talk more on WP7 options, but we don't have anything specifical to announce yet. ... View more

Our goal is to release final based on SL4 and VS2010. Whether the next beta will be based on SL4 is up to when Microsoft releases SL4. ... View more

The next beta will not be dependent on the Silverlight Toolkit assemblies. ... View more