I went ahead and downloaded the trial for MapDotNet Server 2007 and installed it. The install went well after I installed VS2005 and IIS on my laptop (not sure how that happened). Anyway after opening VS2005, all I had to do was open up one of the templates and run the code. The result is below.
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I’m a little too busy today to get further into the code, but it looks very straitforward and easy to get up and running. The Wiki and forums give some insight of what is possible here. With support for ArcSDE it should be pretty easy to migrate to MapDotNet Server without much difficulty.
Now a couple of people have emailed me asking about price. You can see the costs at the I.S. Consulting website:
MapDotNet Pricing MapDotNet Developer License $1000 ($US) MapDotNet Runtime License $3800 ($US) MapDotNet Maintenance Maintenance for MapDotNet Runtime licenses is 20% of the retail license cost. The MapDotNet Developer license is always $1000 per year. MapDotNet Maintenance includes:MapDotNet Developer Support Developer Support is now available for MapDotNet customers. Developer Support is for customers that need programming help. No programming task is too difficult for the ISC Development Team. MapDotNet developer support is $200 per hour and is used in 15 minute increments. Support available for purchase at the time of the initial MapDotNet purchase or at crunch time.
- All MapDotNet Upgrades for one year.
- Access to the MapDotNet Support Portal including the Wiki, Forum and Blogs.
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James, The timing of this blog was excellent. Still reeling from the Dev Summit and the hurdles involved to implement the technology (Server) not to mention the cost…I spent several hours yesterday setting up IIS and figuring out the map file generator and the templates, provided with the download. I was able to serve up my own file based data and start to play with options for selecting, id, etc… I will be continuing my exploration of this before my trial runs out… Thanks, Joel