GIS Plugin for VS 2005

Does anyone know of a good GIS plugin for VS 2005?

Thanks

Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

What does GIS stand for?

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"Randy" wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a good GIS plugin for VS 2005?
>
> Thanks
>

RE: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

Well, here are two extremes. Others hopefully will chime in with a middle
ground:

1. ArcGIS - Expensive ($2500) but very powerfull. You can either build
extensions to their product in VB (6 or .Net) or C#, or you can build an app
based on their objects. Your customer then must by the product. Big gotch:
their upgrades often break functionality, even going from 9.1 to 9.2 broke
major features.

2. Google Earth - Cheap (Free) but fairly functional mapping and the api
lets you launch and zoom to features. KML is a well documented xml format.

It really depends on how much GIS versus just mapping you need.


"Randy" wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good GIS plugin for VS 2005?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

clintonG wrote:
> What does GIS stand for?

Google for "define: GIS"

(Geographic information system)

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Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

Right I knew that already. So now to the real question.
Who has developed a "plugin" the runs as a "system?"

I think the OP wants a control of some type.



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> clintonG wrote:
>> What does GIS stand for?
>
> Google for "define: GIS"
>
> (Geographic information system)
>
> --
> Jon Skeet -
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> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk

Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

What do you want to do?

You might use MapPoint (desktop, stand alone -- or webservice), Visual
Earth, Google Earth, Tatsugis, and others.

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Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

clintonG wrote:
> Right I knew that already. So now to the real question.
> Who has developed a "plugin" the runs as a "system?"
>
> I think the OP wants a control of some type.

Quite possibly - I just don't see what benefit there was in you asking
an extra question in the meantime...

(I don't have an answer for the OP - I found a few CodeProject samples
a while ago, some of which worked after a bit of jiggery-pokery. It
depends which GIS you want to talk to though.)

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Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

Sorry for the delay...
A year ago, I found/downloaded/installed and played with a GIS plugin for
VS. It was pretty powerful. You could throw together a GIS app pretty
quickly and build on it. That was on my old dev machine. I can't remember
where I downloaded it from and now I'm needing it again. I just thought
someone would know.

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote in message
news:MPG.225f07b9d8497d1ac57@msnews.microsoft.com...
> clintonG wrote:
>> Right I knew that already. So now to the real question.
>> Who has developed a "plugin" the runs as a "system?"
>>
>> I think the OP wants a control of some type.
>
> Quite possibly - I just don't see what benefit there was in you asking
> an extra question in the meantime...
>
> (I don't have an answer for the OP - I found a few CodeProject samples
> a while ago, some of which worked after a bit of jiggery-pokery. It
> depends which GIS you want to talk to though.)
>
> --
> Jon Skeet -
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk

Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

Are you referring to a plugin from ESRI who develops GIS(ystems) or
MapWindow perhaps?


"Randy" wrote in message
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> Sorry for the delay...
> A year ago, I found/downloaded/installed and played with a GIS plugin for
> VS. It was pretty powerful. You could throw together a GIS app pretty
> quickly and build on it. That was on my old dev machine. I can't remember
> where I downloaded it from and now I'm needing it again. I just thought
> someone would know.
>
> "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote in message
> news:MPG.225f07b9d8497d1ac57@msnews.microsoft.com...
>> clintonG wrote:
>>> Right I knew that already. So now to the real question.
>>> Who has developed a "plugin" the runs as a "system?"
>>>
>>> I think the OP wants a control of some type.
>>
>> Quite possibly - I just don't see what benefit there was in you asking
>> an extra question in the meantime...
>>
>> (I don't have an answer for the OP - I found a few CodeProject samples
>> a while ago, some of which worked after a bit of jiggery-pokery. It
>> depends which GIS you want to talk to though.)
>>
>> --
>> Jon Skeet -
>> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
>> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk
>
>

Re: GIS Plugin for VS 2005

No, this was 3rd party software. Cowboy answered in the csharp forum with
some good links for what I'm asking about...I'll check it out.
thanks for the reply...


"clintonG" wrote in message
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> Are you referring to a plugin from ESRI who develops GIS(ystems) or
> MapWindow perhaps?
>
>
> "Randy" wrote in message
> news:O3ysVGelIHA.3876@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Sorry for the delay...
>> A year ago, I found/downloaded/installed and played with a GIS plugin for
>> VS. It was pretty powerful. You could throw together a GIS app pretty
>> quickly and build on it. That was on my old dev machine. I can't remember
>> where I downloaded it from and now I'm needing it again. I just thought
>> someone would know.
>>
>> "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote in message
>> news:MPG.225f07b9d8497d1ac57@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> clintonG wrote:
>>>> Right I knew that already. So now to the real question.
>>>> Who has developed a "plugin" the runs as a "system?"
>>>>
>>>> I think the OP wants a control of some type.
>>>
>>> Quite possibly - I just don't see what benefit there was in you asking
>>> an extra question in the meantime...
>>>
>>> (I don't have an answer for the OP - I found a few CodeProject samples
>>> a while ago, some of which worked after a bit of jiggery-pokery. It
>>> depends which GIS you want to talk to though.)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jon Skeet -
>>> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
>>> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk
>>
>>
>