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 ...

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 ...

ArcSDE And Active Directory

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in ArcGIS Server, ESRI, Software Development | No Comments »

So I recently needed to connect into an ArcSDE database (direct connect) using the Operating System login and I realized that I had no idea how to do it. Luckily, ESRI have a great EDN post about it which ...

Filebased Geodatabase Date Filtering

Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Posted in ESRI, Filebased Geodatabase, Software Development | No Comments »

So I had to add some functionality to filter by date and normally this is really simple in ArcObjects as you use the IQueryFilter::WhereClause and enter a date formatted where clause in there. One problem though. I am using Filebased ...

64-bit Windows and ArcGIS

Friday, July 13th, 2007 Posted in ESRI, Software Development | 9 Comments »

So we predominantly use C# for development at TC Technology for many reasons which I will leave for a different post. During 64-bit testing though we found that it can be interesting when dealing with: 64-bit Windows ArcGIS 9.2 .NET ...

ESRI User Conference

Monday, June 25th, 2007 Posted in ESRI, User Conference | No Comments »

So to give some metadata to the picture in the last post it is an image of the user conference on the first morning with a 'bunch' of people waiting to get in the door.From what I heard the conference ...

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Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in ESRI, User Conference | No Comments »

ESRI User Conference

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Posted in ESRI, User Conference | No Comments »

Well it's almost that time again for some 13,000 people to meet up in San Diego. Just booked my flight yesterday (late I know) and I am starting to get jazzed.There should be some really good buzz around what will be ...

Decided to create a new blog about GIS

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 Posted in Blogs, ESRI, Software Development, Technology | 1 Comment »

Well it happened. I decided that a bunch of the things I am writing about have no place being on our family blog (mainly focused around Euan and what we do as a family) and Work (focused on only the ...