Latest Contributions by dotMorten_esri

This is just how Mercator works. The poles are infinitely far from the top/bottom. That's why most maps cuts off around 85 degrees, because the distortion beyond that point is getting enormous. You are correct there is no way to plot the poles in Mercator. So in other words: This is not a bug but expected behavior. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection - What is the limitation of the ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Bing.Transform.GeographicToWebMercator? -180,-90 -> 180,90 (but note that large positive or negative Y values will converge towards infinity) - What is the limit in terms of WGS84 geodetic coordinates for World Street Map on ArcGISonline (http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer )? -180,-90 -> 180,90. This goes for all geographic coordinates (well if they use degrees that is 🙂 ... View more

Sorry, I am still getting the same error, the Security Exception while trying to connect to the REST Endpoint. Fiddler doesn't provide any errors just says it is trying to connect to the machine through the SSL port (being 443). So are you saying that the app is actually requesting the layer information and map from the services, but the service is returning an error, or are you saying that you don't see any requests going to the service? Does the client access policy file get requested? Do you see anything after that? All this information is important to understand what is going on. Also see this post: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/silverlightwpf/archive/2009/08/24/Troubleshooting-blank-layers.aspx ... View more

what am I missing though? First of all, a description of what problem you are now seeing happening after these changes? What Initialization failure (if any) do you get on your layer? What is the Fiddler log teling you? ... View more

There's nothing preventing you from creating your own draw tool that does this by using the mouse events. The nice thing about the editing implementation is that you don't have to use the editor to do editing. If you can create the code required for the user to draw a circle, you can simply add the feature to the FeatureLayer.Graphics collection and it will automatically be added to server. This forum thread might also be of interest to you: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=213&f=2455&t=289039&g=1 ... View more

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