Labels

[AndyBurnell]

Hi I was wondering if there is an easy way to add a button in the layer list to turn on/off labels? I have 11 layers in my map containing many entries. I would like the user to be able to control when the label is displayed.

Thanks,

Andy

[JenniferNery]

How are you adding labels on your layer?

[AndyBurnell]

My labels are turned on through the layer properties in my MXD file. I know that I could create annotation layers but I wanted to keep the web map clean. I was just wondering if there was some control that I could add that would allow this.

[JenniferNery]

Our API does not support labelling and annotations. But you could use GraphicsLayer with MapPoints that use TextSymbol that binds to an attribute http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#AddGraphicsXAML. If your layer contain polygon, you can use LabelAsync to get a good label position. http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/samples/start.htm#LabelPoints

[AndyBurnell]

Thank you very much for the info and timely responses.


Andy