Earlier this year, I uploaded a Silverlight table of contents control to the Code Gallery for use within ESRI Silverlight applications. It is based on the sublayer list sample and the ArcGIS Server Explorer code submission. The TOC is buddied to the map control and uses the WebClient class to download map service/layer information from the REST endpoints of each map service and layer. A treeview control is populated based on the downloaded information where each node is a either a map service or a layer that inherits from a base tocitem. Each map service/layer contains a toclayer collection which includes each node’s child layers (i.e. sublayers). Essentially, the control acts like the ArcMap table of contents, including hiding sublayers when a group layer is unchecked and respecting each layer’s scale dependencies.

So, after happily using WebHost4Life for over a year, the company has switched owners and migrated all hosting accounts to a new platform. Unfortunately, this process has been anything but easy. In fact, if you did a search for “webhost4life migration” you’d see lots of unhappy customers and I was no exception.

The process began in early February and, as of May, has only been completed by me closing the account and moving to a new provider…3essentials. I tried my hardest to go through with the migration but the new technical support lacked the basic competency to perform simple tasks. On separate occasions, the migration engineers had to restore my database from a backup because they accidentally deleted all of my data. Each time they also forgot to give the appropriate permissions to the database and had to redo that.

Every time I began a chat with the support team, the individual...

Earlier this year I read a blog post about adding a Live Map to a DotnetnukeText/HTML module using JQuery and it got me thinking about all the map modules out there. There seems to be a lot that use Google Maps (or Live Maps) for the base map. With the latest release (v1.5) of the ArcGIS API for Javascript I thought it was about time to let folks know how easy it is to add a different live map to your website.

 Virginia shows off emergency management system built using ArcGIS Server/Desktop and Flex.