Totally new to ArcGIS : require guidelines

ParitaShah · ‎10-17-2011

hello,

I am a student. Currently working on a thesis project. My thesis is related to: Re-engineering a Legacy Visualization Module of Spatial Decision Support Software for Modern GIS Software.

This is a GIS tool already developed in ArcView GIS. I have to re-engineer it using ArcEngine and ArcObjects.

Is it possible?

I have everything installed on my laptop. ArcGIS Engine (licensed), ArcGIS Desktop 10 (licensed), ArcGIS Engine Runtime (licensed), ArcGIS Engine SDK(licensed).

What will be better to use? NetBeans or Eclipse. I have also installed ARcGIS Engine plugin for eclipse. But the visual editor fails i guess.

I was wondering if someone can guide me to the steps from where to begin.

JamesCrandall · ‎10-17-2011

There's lots of resorces on the ArcGIS Resources pages dedicated to ArcGIS Engine application development. Looks like .NET (VB, C#, etc..), C++ and Java are the choices in programming languages:

http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgis-engine/10.0/about

ParitaShah · ‎10-18-2011

I am aware about these information. The problem is when i begin to download the arcgis engine plugin for eclipse, i get error about the visual editior. I tried to download that too from http://www.eclipse.org/archived/

but this doesnt work too. I cannot open the file.

And i am guessing that without having visual editor i cannot proceed because i dont get the option of Visual java class which is the first step to build and write the code.