Latest Contributions by ZacheryBettis

How have users of SolarWinds database performance analyzer been able to improve the end-user experience of GIS applications (ArcMap for starters) accessing SQL Server databases?  If a SQL query has been determined to be taking too long and hardware is not the issue, how can they be altered? ... View more

I have created a tool on a toolbar that works great.  What is the best way to distribute this to other users in my organization?  I have tried command based msbuild and it worked for a few days but eventually all the users lost the toolbar.  The only sure-fire way to get the toolbar to stay available is to install Visual Studio and build the solution with it.  There has got to be a better way to do this. ... View more

I've seen some maps that have uniquely-shaped inset maps.  How can I do this in ArcMap? ... View more

I'm trying to programmatically convert (in C#) feet coordinates to decimal degrees.  I'm not so worried about the actual programming (although it would be nice if someone has already created code for this) as I am the math behind the conversion.  I've included my coordinate system details below in case they're needed.  How can I accomplish this? Example: 1,985,012.726  449,396.204 Feet  --> -97.548833  32.901945 Decimal Degrees Coordinate System: NAD_1927_StatePlane_Texas_North_Central_FIPS_4202 WKID: 32038 Authority: EPSG Projection: Lambert_Conformal_Conic False_Easting: 2000000.0 False_Northing: 0.0 Central_Meridian: -97.5 Standard_Parallel_1: 32.13333333333333 Standard_Parallel_2: 33.96666666666667 Latitude_Of_Origin: 31.66666666666667 Linear Unit: Foot_US (0.3048006096012192) Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1927 Angular Unit: Degree (0.0174532925199433) Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_North_American_1927   Spheroid: Clarke_1866     Semimajor Axis: 6378206.4     Semiminor Axis: 6356583.799998981     Inverse Flattening: 294.9786982 ... View more