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Release Date:  6/29/2007

Release notes contain important information available at the time of the Version 6.1. Please read this for information as to what changes have occurred since MapDotNet Server 2007 Version 6.0.

New Features

1.    Enhanced support for Microsoft  Virtual Earth

For more information on our VE Template II click here

a.    Visual Studio 2005 template project web site

b.    Full support for Virtual Earth version 5.0

c.    Support for VE 3D control  including drill-down queries and feature highlighting

d.    Support for pre-draw extensions to further customize the tile rendering (e.g. hot spot mapping)

e.    Tile caching support for SQL Server 2005 (including Express version)

f.     Tile over-fetching to improve real-time tile rendering and cache preload speeds up to 10X

g.    Tile Cache Preloader – utility to preload your tile cache (Download)

h.    Improved error logging (to database and file as a back-up)

i.      Better VE metadata support in map configuration file

j.      Support to override tile caching allowing custom caching mechanism

2.    Support for SpatialDB
SpatialDB is an OGC-compliant extension to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for storing 2D and 3D spatial information. The 2D support adheres to the OGC Simple Feature for SQL specification. MapDotNet Server can not only render map layers and tiles using SpatialDB and SQL Server but also includes our feature querying and feature editing connectors as well. Please visit http://www.diamondsoftwareconcepts.com/ for more information.

3.    Support for ESRI ArcSDE 9.2
Map rendering as well as feature querying and editing is now supported on version 9.2.

4.    Support for ArcSDE version plug-ins
Version 6.0 required the developer to swap out an integral DLL when adding or removing ArcSDE support as well as when changing ArcSDE versions. This has been replaced with a pluggable architecture and new map configuration file syntax to switch support. read more

5.    ArcSDE raster support
Raster imagery stored in ArcSDE can be rendered as a map layer.

Performance and Architecture Improvements

1.    Improved tiling Support

The map web service supports slicing (create multiple tiles from a single image request), bleeds (for improved tile alignment) and PNG32 overlays with alpha channel.

2.    Improvements to our Shape SDK classes

More helper methods for shape operations and transforms

 

3.    Improved support for Session timeout

Support in components and template pages

 

4.    Numerous optimization and performance tweaks

 

5.    Load test utilities for map and tile generation as well as query performance
 

6.    Map File Generator
Error checking of paths to resources when publishing and other checks