ESRI seems to like to play things very close to the vest - so to speak. It is difficult to find information on just about anything dealing with creating class libraries in .NET to work with ArcGIS 9.2, even though they tout that 9.2 is built on the .NET Framework 2.0. So far, 99% of the articles, tutorials or help I have found have been for pre-9.2 and VS 2003 (Framework 1.1).
To be fair, I have found a few PDF files discussing 9.2 and .NET 2.0, but that is about it. They are actually PDFs made from PowerPoint slides that I'm certain were from some conference or demonstration given probably a year or so ago. But the walkthroughs they have on their site for VS 2003 - which seem exceptional in detail - are conspicuously missing for VS 2005. Everything I have found that deals with VS 2005 centers around the ArcGIS SDK which , of course, didn't get installed on my system along with ArcGIS 9.2, and is not downloadable from ESRI - which I find strange. It seems to me that other companies make their SDK readily available to developers, but ESRI doesn't seem to want to play that game for some reason.
So here I am, about a week into the project. I've got most of the VBA code translated, but I can't test any of it because I can't get the crap to work properly in ArcMap, and I can't find any decent assistance on the 'net. I guess I'm going to have to go be the quintessential n00b at the ESRI forums and beg for some sort of help. I hate doing that, but, like Duke Wayne said "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" ( or someone said that anyway ).
Here are the walkthrough/tutorials that I found pertaining to ESRI and .NET if anyone is interested/needs them:
The way I'm looking at this right now, It seems like it would be infinitely easier to create a desktop app and add the ArcMap to the app, instead of trying to create modules to run in ArcMap. But that isn't the way things are right now, so I've gotta do what they want done.
Technorati Tags: ESRI, ArcGIS 9.2, .NET Framework 2, C#
To be fair, I have found a few PDF files discussing 9.2 and .NET 2.0, but that is about it. They are actually PDFs made from PowerPoint slides that I'm certain were from some conference or demonstration given probably a year or so ago. But the walkthroughs they have on their site for VS 2003 - which seem exceptional in detail - are conspicuously missing for VS 2005. Everything I have found that deals with VS 2005 centers around the ArcGIS SDK which , of course, didn't get installed on my system along with ArcGIS 9.2, and is not downloadable from ESRI - which I find strange. It seems to me that other companies make their SDK readily available to developers, but ESRI doesn't seem to want to play that game for some reason.
So here I am, about a week into the project. I've got most of the VBA code translated, but I can't test any of it because I can't get the crap to work properly in ArcMap, and I can't find any decent assistance on the 'net. I guess I'm going to have to go be the quintessential n00b at the ESRI forums and beg for some sort of help. I hate doing that, but, like Duke Wayne said "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" ( or someone said that anyway ).
Here are the walkthrough/tutorials that I found pertaining to ESRI and .NET if anyone is interested/needs them:
- Walkthrough 1 C#: Creating a simple command for ArcMap
- Walkthrough 2 C#: Creating a command that inherits from BaseCommand
- Walkthrough 3 C#: Using a Windows Form to create a DockableWindow for ArcMap
- Create a command by inheriting from BaseCommand
The way I'm looking at this right now, It seems like it would be infinitely easier to create a desktop app and add the ArcMap to the app, instead of trying to create modules to run in ArcMap. But that isn't the way things are right now, so I've gotta do what they want done.
Technorati Tags: ESRI, ArcGIS 9.2, .NET Framework 2, C#
