Geocortex Blog

This release of the Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight offers many new features and enhancements, including:

• Integration with Bing Maps and Google maps
• New Editing Tools
• Upload Data Capabilities
• Toolbar Behaviour Configuration
• Buffer Identify
• Identify Layer Selection
• Context menus, feature actions and feature set actions
• Export Map Image
• Improvement to the Composite Delegate Command
• Improvements to highlighting
• Viewer Themes
• Performance Improvements

The Geocortex Viewer for Silverlight (1.2) is available for download at the Geocortex Support Center

This is a reminder that the 2011 Geocortex User Conference is fast approaching (June 7-8, 2011).

Register by May 12^th and receive a discount on registration fees.

Like the 2010 Geocortex User Conference, this will be another live online event with all sessions recorded for later viewing. Last year, we discovered that a video broadcast with real-time Q&A is an effective way to learn and share information. It also reduces costs and eliminates travel-time for attendees, while allowing us to reach a wider audience in an era of reduced travel authorizations. Our goal is to replicate the advantages of an in-person event as closely as possible.

The Agenda is now available online. You can register for the conference here.

We hope you can make it!

I was just reading some great tips from the Esri Support Services Blog for displaying rasters in your MXD.  If you have wondered why your rasters sometimes look much brighter than you expected, read this post about how stretches are applied to rasters in ArcMap, and how to change the settings.

ArcGIS 10 (Desktop, Engine, Server) Service Pack 2 has been released.  Click here for details.

Language specific service packs are coming soon.

Today, I am excited to announce the general release of Geocortex Optimizer 1.5! This is a major new release that introduces several new and improved features.

Of particular interest, we have introduced support for monitoring ArcGIS Server Image Services. This new feature will enable Geocortex Optimizer to monitor the availability and performance of those services and receive notifications when they are not available.

Another great feature is the improved database migration and archiving functionality. Geocortex Optimizer 1.5 allows you to archive legacy data, reducing the size of your Geocortex Optimizer databases and improving the speed of Optimizers reports.

This latest release of Geocortex Optimizer has a lot of other great new features including:

• Compatibility with the latest version of Geocortex Agent
• Support for the ArcGIS Server Image Service add-in
• Greatly enhanced data migration and archiving functionality
• Support for secured map services
• Offline report generation
• Order of magnitude speed improvements
• 40+ bugs fixed.

Visit the Geocortex Support Center’s downloads section to grab the installer and read the documentation related to this release.  Please visit our website for current release notes.

When reprojecting shapefiles or feature classes between different datums, you will need to specify which geographic transformation to use.  As you know, there are many to choose from.  This is a great resource to help you select the correct transformation based on geographic area.

The “Set Selectable Layers” option is still available in ArcGIS 10, you just need to add it like you would a custom tool:

Click the Customize menu > Customize Mode > Commands tab.  Type “set selectable layers” in the “show commands containing” search box, and drag and drop the Set Selectable Layers command on to your Selection menu.