Latest Contributions by EricDaniel

I definitely agree with this but not just for iOS but all of the mobile API's (Android, Windows Phone, etc) ... View more

Good news David, according to this comment on the Ideas site that is dated April 15, Esri does plan to implement offline scenarios support in a future release.  Let's hope it comes in their next big 3.0 release.  http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008G6zAAE ... View more

 It was announced by David Cadella of Esri at the Dev Summit that all of the Smartphone API's will add offline use cases by the ArcGIS 10.1 timeframe, so likely a beta by this Summer.  That said, I'm confused there isn't a "Under Consideration' notification on this Idea listing.   ... View more

 Great request Peggybill.  I couldn't agree more that this is greatly needed.  The new report functionality in ArcGIS 10 is pretty limited.  We need something closer to Crystal Reports or SQL Server Reporting Services so reports can be both Maps and non-map features that are all very dynamic.   ... View more

Couldn't yet another option be mixing WPF for the UI and the ArcGIS Mobile API? ... View more

If you interested in having this kind of offline functionality in the Silverlight/WPF API, you should post your vote for it at the following link: http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008G6z ... View more

The advantage with the Silverlight/WPF API would be code re-use from a Desktop WPF or Out of Browser Silverlight App.  You could reuse most of your code for the Windows Phone 7 app.  I would be much tougher with ArcGIS Mobile since it uses WinForms.  Also, with Microsoft's recent changes with Windows Mobile, I not sure how much longer a life ArcGIS Mobile will have in it's current state. The ArcGIS Mobile SDK still on uses the .NET 3.5 so that makes you wonder right there.  ... View more

Thanks for the reply and that is good to hear you are at least investigating it.  Essentially a fork was put into the Windows Mobile OS this year with announcement of Windows Phone 7 early in the year which goes in one direction and in the other direction is Windows Embedded Handheld which was announced in June.  Microsoft has already said that the next version of Windows Embedded Handheld OS will support Silverlight and become available in the second half of 2011.  This Handheld OS will be the successor to the Windows Mobile being heavily used with rugged handheld devices that the ArcGIS Mobile SDK and ArcPad is strong in today.  Thus, I can't help but think the ArcGIS Silverlight/WPF API and ArcGIS Mobile SDK aren't going to begin to overlap in the future.  Seems like a good place to combine efforts to me.  This is something we are investigating and thinking about, but I can't share any details at this time. ... View more

Any chance there may be a full offline story in future versions beyond 2.1 of the Silverlight/WPF API?   It would be a huge benefit for WPF clients, Silverlight OOB clients, and WP7 apps.  A full offline story like what you are requesting will not be available in 2.1 ... View more

Robert, I am curious as to what type of computer devices you are using for your offline mobile users?  Is it just laptops running Windows, or are you using some type of mobile device (Windows Mobile 6.5)? Since Microsoft looks to be moving way from Windows Mobile development based on the .NET Compact Framework which only supports WinForms.  In addition to some subtle announcements that they may be dropping it, I think it's clear they are when it didn't make it into the Visual Studio 2010 product.   Thus, ArcGIS Mobile SDK developers have to use Visual Studio 2008.  Although I have heard no clear direction from ESRI on this, I would think will move away from this as well, even though their new version 10.0 ArcGIS Mobile SDK is based on this.  They have said they plan to eventually release an API for Windows Phone 7, which requires Silverlight.  I would think ESRI would use at least a subset of their current Silverlight/WPF API for the Phone API.  This will be out-of-browser for the Windows Phone device, since it has to be and hopefully it will support offline use and editing. I think it would be huge if they did add offline support for not only the Web API but also the Windows Phone API.  I think that would make many of us very happy and provide an upgrade path to better technology for customers like yourself using the current Mobile SDK for offline support.   I need WPF Offline capabilities as well.  We currently are using the mobile ADF in 9.3.1 for our windows application which allows for checking in and out data from a mobile service.  We also have web applications using the Web ADF. For ArcGIS 10 we would like to move toward silverlight for the web and WPF for the windows applications.  Our users need to be able to work in both Online and Offline modes using the windows application.  They need the ability to check-out data and go into the field/jungle edit data and then check-in that data when returning to the office. Can I use the Silverlight/WPF API and create a cache/work offline?  Or do I need to use the Mobile SDK to create a WPF application for offline use and if so, how do I port that to silverlight? ... View more