Resize Infragistics UltraDropDown column in UltraWinGrid

Sunday, June 7th, 2009 Posted in C#, Infragistics | No Comments »

One of the annoying things when using the UltraDropDown with a UltraWinGrid is that it refuses to resize the dropdown, and the columns in it, by default. This is at least in the Infragistics version that I a using (v8.3). ...

Exporting from ESRI GDB to CAD

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in C#, ESRI, GIS | 3 Comments »

I am implementing a project that needs to export from the ESRI GDB into DXF format. There are many ways to do this but one of the main requirements is that we should not had to the list of royalties ...

VS .NET 2008

Friday, January 16th, 2009 Posted in C#, Technology, Visual Studio | No Comments »

I know that every other man and his dog have been using VS .NET 2008 for a long time now but when you are supporting product that needs to run in ArcGIS 9.2 then it is more difficult. Now that most ...

Finding out if a File Geodatabase Feature Class is compressed

Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Posted in ArcGIS Mobile, C#, Filebased Geodatabase | No Comments »

Compressed file geodatabases (fGDB) are a great thing. They render data amazingly fast and search quickly but take up a miniscule amount of disk space. Good job to ESRI on getting it right. They are not editable though, and therefore ...

ESRI AxToolbarControl and Windowless ActiveX controls are not supported

Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in ArcGIS Engine, C#, Software Development | No Comments »

This is something that I encountered before but it cropped up again this morning and I thought it was time to get it on 'paper'. To allow for complete control of the application configuration, GO! Sync Mapbook uses reflection to load ...

xsd command and multiple xsd files

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in C#, Software Development | 1 Comment »

I use the .net xsd command heavily but this is the first time that I have needed to generate a class when the xsd itself references other xsd files. When I run the command as I normally use: xsd /c <Name of ...

Software Build Automation

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in C#, Cruise Control .NET, Nant, Source Control, Visual Studio | No Comments »

I remember reading a book about 4 years ago on how to determine the maturity of software development companies. The thing that stood out at the time was the fact that mature development shops have a well managed and efficient ...