James Fee GIS Blog

Well I think most would agree, the 2008 DevSummit was one of the best.  There was tons of new stuff to learn about, much more attendees, more ESRI staff, better layout of the conference (the Community Center was particularly good) and better session (and more of them).  So what did I take away from the [...]

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I don’t think there is anything wrong swinging by the office on the way home from the Developer Summit to pick up the 9.3 Beta disks to install tonight while I watch UCLA destroy Mississippi Valley State. My wife just doesn’t understand me but I’m happy with who I am.

Lets see, I have my [...]

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ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 5 will be available by the end of March. This appears to be a “true” service pack release and not a feature release. I’m not sure I’ll bother installing it on our ArcGIS Server implementations, but we’ll deploy on all our ArcGIS Desktop seats. One change did catch [...]

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Doron Yaacoby writes that he’s absolutely frustrated with ESRI’s Web ADF.
As I’ve said before, this is one horrific development platform. I’ve started to seriously think about coding a replacement that will work against ArcObjects (at least something that will satisfy my team’s needs), but it would take a lot of time which we currently do [...]

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On Friday the Google Summer of Code Blog posted very interesting news about touchEarth created by Pawel Solyga.
touchEarth, an application he developed that allows you to control Google Earth using two finger gestures on multi-touch table. touchEarth uses the Google Earth COM API to control some of Google Earth’s features, while all the multi-touch [...]

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The ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4 is available for download on ESRI’s support site.
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 4
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 4
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 4

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We knew about this back in July, but ESRI has posted an announcement about Service Pack 4. Nothing about ArcGIS Server yet and that should be a big list because ESRI puts new features in their Service Packs. What is missing is the Vista support that was promised. I’m not sure why [...]

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Damian has the best news possible for everyone:
All,
After further investigation, it’s been determined that SP3 is OK as is and the initial files will be reposted this evening without any changes. Anyone who may have already downloaded SP3 should use what they have downloaded already as we have not changed the setups and what [...]

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Damian Spangrud posted some information about the issue with the Service Pack 3.
All,
I apologize for the confusion; please let me clarify the situation with SP3.
A minor issue was found in the final version of SP3 which impacts developers and applications using geoprocessing tools via .Net, the core ArcGIS products functionality is not impacted. The specifics [...]

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Update - The service pack 3 has been pulled. Updates will be up later on Friday.
As promised by ESRI, the Service Packs are out.
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 3
ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 3
ArcSDE 9.2 Service Pack 3

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As most of you already have heard via either the new RSS feeds or the support email, ArcGIS 9.3 9.2 Service Pack 3 is ready to be released by the end of the month. Jack’s Q&A from before the UC said that it would be released in July and it appears that they have [...]

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I didn’t see much about this out of the 2007 User Conference, but an updated Technical Article spells it out.
ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop and ArcGIS 9.2 Engine are currently undergoing certification on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system with the 9.2 SP4 release targeted for October/November, 2007. Please note that this certification will not include any [...]

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UPDATE: I have no idea why ESRI doesn’t believe in permalinks so all those links below do nothing special. Sorry.
I’m not going and probably most of you aren’t either so this might be your best bet as to getting an idea what might or might not be said Monday morning.
ESRI International User Conference 2007 [...]

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I’m sure many of you got an email this morning detailing a new survey for ArcObjects that ESRI has posted:
The ESRI development team seeks your feedback on ArcGIS 9.2 so that we can incorporate your needs into future releases. We are specifically interested in how you use ArcObjects.
We’d like to know how you work [...]

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As ESRI announced at the Developer Summit, April would be the month that ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 would be released. As luck would have it, SP2 arrived tonight. You can begin hitting the ESRI servers when you get into work in the morning:
ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 2 - ArcGIS Desktop/Workstation, ArcReader, ArcGIS Engine and [...]

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As I’m sure many of you who subscribe to ESRI’s email announcement list saw, ESRI is planning to release ArcGIS 9.2 SP2 sometime near mid-april. For those who missed it, you can view the changes here. One thing to keep in mind is ESRI’s definintion of a Service Pack may be different then [...]

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Rob Elkins and Dave Bouwman have some great posts on the morning sessions. Rather than repeat what they’ve written I’ll point you in their direction.
Rob Elkins - 2nd Annual ESRI Developer Summit
Rob Elkins - ArcGIS Server takes the Stage (Author - Server - Use)
Rob Elkins - Plenary Session continues..
Rob Elkins - Online GIS
Dave Bouwman [...]

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Back in November, before we all got our ArcGIS 9.2, ESRI posted an updated ArcGIS Desktop Life Cycle PDF that showed that ArcGIS 9.1 had entered “Extended Support”. I guess they changed their minds because it appears that 9.1 is still in “General Availability”. We are back to the
ArcGIS 9.1 will be moved [...]

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It should.
I’m not sure why 9.1 made it into this FAQ though…

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Wondering if ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 will address your problem? Check out ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 - Announcement page and find out.
The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 25, 2006. This service pack is to [...]

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