Latest Contributions by MichaelEber

We have a graphic layer in which we show security events as icons overlayed on top of the map. If an icon is selected, we create a larger brighter icon and that shows on top of the smaller original icon. We updated our API to the latest release recently and since then our highlight icons only sometimes work.  It seems that there was a change in the way ESRI handles the graphics and will on random occasions try to keep the smaller icons on top of the larger highlighted icon.  And it does this no matter what we do. I tried fixing this issue by changing the Z-Index.  But apparently ESRI doesn't always look at the Z-Index and actually ignores it!!!!!  (isn't this graphics management 101???) So our second approach was to create a second graphic layer.  However once we put anything into the second layer the first layer gets ignored and does not display anything. My questions:   Is there a way to STOP ESRI from this display algorithm of smaller icons on top of larger icons?   Will replacing the default renderer with the SimpleRenderer resolve the issue?   Is the API limited to only a single Graphic layer?  And if not is there a way to display both graphic layers at once? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! ... View more

We have simulations we run and we show the results in Desktop Explorer.  We use Notes and Folders to present of what the user is looking at.  We save one Note as the one we want to move focus to which contains the largest plume in the collection of plumes that we are displaying. If I do a straight analysis everything works without issues.  No problems at all. If we run an analysis as a scenario we crash.  The only difference between the two is we save the scenario results to Access and we do not save it for the straight analysis. The issue this: I set the Note to be focused as follows: Note notefocus = currentNote; Later we do this: if (noteFocus != null) {       ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Geometry.Envelope env =               (ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Geometry.Envelope)GeometryOperations.Scale(noteFocus.Graphic.Geometry.GetEnvelope(), 1.2);       noteFocus.Popup.Activate();       Extension.ZoomTo( env ); } The call to Extension.Zoom is our own library of ESRI utility functions.  We die trying to access noteFocus.Graphic as this is set to null. This null even if I manually define it from the original Note.Graphic as well as just setting the instance.  In spite of this being null, the original object still has a graphic object defined and accessible.  Then it gets weirder.  On one out of 3 machines it works without a problem.  The only difference between this simulation and all of the other working simulations (so far as I know) is that the plume is the largest and deadliest we have every built.  It is also a circle that we created manually (since ESRI doesn't know how to create a circle in software) by copying each point on the circle to a new polygon then smoothing it.  If we don't do this then esri returns a "circle" made up of 2 points.  Sql Server Geometry needs a minimum of 3 points to convert their polygon to an SQL polygon. Has anyone ever experienced this and if so what is the workaround you found to stop the Graphic from becoming nulled??? ... View more

We have a server DLL implemented with 10 GeoProcessing Services deployed.  The SD's were published a little while ago.  The DLL has been registered.  Everything has been running cleanly for the past month or two in preparation for production deployment next week. We had on minor change that we pushed out to the server and ever since then we have not been able to run the services.  ArcMap testing is equally weird. In Arcmap I connect to the remote GeoProcessing Server. I pull up one of our services and the window WITH PARAMETERS shows.  This is usually an indicator to us that all is good! I populate the parameters with values and then click the button to execute it. It churns for a few seconds, places a call to the server, then fails with parameters need repair once again. Stranger yet is the fact that with the local version I'm trying to get running to recreate the SD files my services won't run at all.  No dialog with populated parameters and their types.  This is an indicator that the local instace cannot see the database.  Yet if we use Sql Server Manager I can see the server without a problem. I'm hoping someone else has experienced this and can tell me just what to do to get around this.  I've been dead in the water now for four days! Michael ... View more

Almost everyone here in our office has had instability issues with Explorer Desktop 2.0.0.2505.  We all have the same issue:   Explorer starts up and we get the splash screen. At that point we no longer get anything.  I've let it run overnight without getting the UI at all.   Sometimes it helps to reboot. Usually it requires running a re-install to repair the install. It takes longer to do a re-install by setting compatibility to Windows 7 and making it run as administrator.   It may run fine for a day and rarely for a week and then it starts all over again.  Once it hangs it usually hangs for every attempt after that.   This is used by a large group of users in the government for running their applications.  So keeping this stable is important for continuing use.   Has anyone else experienced this and what have you done to stabilize this??? ... View more

I've been spending two days trouble shooting an issue where a Geoprocessing Server, that has worked regularly for the past week, had stopped working.  It failed in a call to ESRI with ESRI returning the wonderful error message:  "Fail"   We began running connection and debugging tests and during one of these issues it reported that the raster could not be created because C:\Program Files\ArcGis\Server\framework\runtime\jre\bin\...   When I went to the server we had several versions of these files, folders, some XML files, and shape files in this directory.  I shut down the service, cleaned out all of these files, and then restarted the server service.  Once it was cleaned out I got everything running once again.   These services are critical to government activities and we cannot have our services killed because ESRI chose to write local files and not clean up the mess.  So what can we do to make certain this scenario does not happen in a live environment? ... View more