Latest Contributions by MarkCederholm

When I first started working with WPF as an alternative to Windows Forms, I welcomed the concept of a better separation of interface from logic.  While I didn't really think in terms of skins or themes, one question almost immediately popped into my head: How can I design a single, relatively simple GIS field application, that can be configured to look completely different, in order to accomplish different tasks? My first attempt didn't really offer the flexibility I wanted.  Then I started studying MVVM design, which offered the flexibility I wanted, but presented a whole new series of challenges.  Finally, I arrived at two ideas:  1) extending the MapView using Behaviors, and 2) implementing an extensible view model that can accommodate views of any composition.  This presentation describes the architecture I developed. ... View more

I'm seeing the same problems with Mobile Map Packages in the 100.0 release that I saw in the Beta.  I cannot zoom or pan to the full extent of the data, and not all features are rendering properly.  Is this issue still being worked on for a future release? ... View more

We've been running into a problem with the sync framework, but it's not a really bug, rather a locking issue.  The problem is, originally the sync framework only supported non-versioned feature classes, and when people are editing those feature classes back in the office, it blocks synchronization attempts (as ArcGIS Server logs so painfully reveal).  Recently, we started experimenting with a sync-enabled service with versioned feature classes, and upon discovering how that mechanism actually works, realized that this could lead to a data management NIGHTMARE. Has anyone found a happy solution?  I'm thinking possibly that, via a script, we could transfer new features from a field class to a back-office class for further editing.  The problem there is that the updated data needs to get back out into the field.  Perhaps the feature service should point to a two-way replica of the back-office class which is synchronized nightly?  I can't help but feel that this is more complicated than it needs to be. Any ideas?  Success stories?   Update:  It just occurred to me that, in Esri's flashy demos, maybe the back-office people are editing via the same feature service rather than using ArcMap.  That might be an alternative worth investigating. ... View more

GPKs created using Desktop 10.2.1 and 10.3.1 work fine with Runtime 10.2.7, but GPKs created using 10.4.1 and 10.5.PR do not.  I've been told that certain versions of ArcMap/ArcCatalog are only compatible with certain versions of Runtime, because of an ArcObjects compatibility issue.  If so, will 10.4.1 and 10.5 support the Quartz release?  [The current Quartz Beta doesn't have a local server yet that I can test.] ... View more