Screen Scraping for Modern Times

While screen scraping is normally associated with mainframes and other technologies that send a cold shiver up the PC’s spine, sometimes it has its uses. In this case, a customer wanted driving distance information (and

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A Great Text Editor: Notepad++

The PC is constantly trying new tools and IDE’s to edit his wares. Sometimes you want a quick and dirty edit with something a little nicer than notepad but not the CPU tenderizer of an IDE like Visual Studio or Dreamwea

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Make Your ArcIMS Page Load Faster

To avoid a long initial load of your web site, try going old school with your map. Most of our apps start with a full county view. Why make your user wait for a round trip to ArcIMS to view it? Make it a static image

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C# to VB Converter

Have you noticed that most .NET samples on the web are in C#? You can convert these samples into VB with a number of different online utilities. The PC’s favorite one is here, although the PC primarily likes it because

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Controlling Legend Content in ArcIMS with ArcXML

ArcIMS legends can get big and ugly in a hurry. To save space, you may decide your user can figure out the big blue blob labeled “Charlotte” is a city without eating up your web page in legend. Fortunately, with ArcXM

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Enterprise SDE Web Site

You may not know it, but we have a site just for information on our Enterprise (forgive the buzz word) Spatial Database Engine. On it users can request logins, view brief metadata on what we have on our server, and get

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Launch Javascript Events from .NET Datagrid Buttons

I sent out an email explaining how to add pushbuttons to a datagrid and capture the record ID of the button pushed. You can also launch client-side events based on a button push in a datagrid with the OnItemDataBind met

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Free .NET Web Charting Control

Ah, the simple joy of getting something for nothing.As part of the Chamber Project, we went hunting for a charting component for .NET. We ended up discovering the WebChart Control.The WebChart Control is a free charting

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Making a Good Color Scheme

Problems coordinating colors on your maps or applications? Try ColorBlender .You can pick your main color, and the web site will automatically give you colors that go with it. It exports Photoshop color tables (.act) i

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Open Source Software

Open Source Software is software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes. Some

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