Learning ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET

Ron Vincent

ISBN 10: 1785885456 / ISBN 13: 9781785885457

Published by Packt Publishing Limited, GB, 2016

About this Item

Learn how to build native, cross-platform mapping apps with this comprehensive and practical guide, using the MVVM patternAbout This Book. Enhance the user experience with the power of ArcGIS runtime SDK for .NET. This clear, well segregated book has all the information you need on ArcGIS Runtime SDK. Just name it-this book has it! This highly practical book empowers you to build your own custom application! Get to know the inner details of ArcGIS Runtime SDK from our experts, in this book written by Ron Vincent, with 24 years' experience in the GIS industry and many in GIS training. Who This Book Is ForThis book caters to long-term users of Esri's technologies that are new to mobile development or are transitioning from older Esri technologies such as ArcGIS Engine. It is also for users who are unfamiliar with Esri or GIS and are in need of a mapping solution for either their desktop or a mobile platform, or both. The book requires knowledge of .NET.What You Will Learn. Understand and implement the MVVM pattern using MVVM Light. Create and add layers from offline and online resources such as ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS for Server. Create a 2D or 3D map and decide what kind of symbology to use. Symbolize the layers based on the geometry. Search and find objects in the layers. Geocode an address and create a route using an address. Edit layer objects from online content and offline content. Test the application using test-driven development and then build and release the application for the intended audienceIn DetailArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) that enables you to work with maps and geographic information. It can be used to create and utilize maps, compile geographic data, analyze mapped information, share and discover geographic information and manage geographic information in a database.This book starts by showing you where ArcGIS Runtime fits within Esri's overall platform strategy. You'll create an initial map using the SDK, then use it to get an understanding of the MVVM model. You'll find out about the different kinds of layers and start adding layers, and you'll learn to transform maps into a 3D scene.The next chapters will help you comprehend and extract information contained in the maps using co-ordinates and layer objects. Towards the end, you will learn to set the symbology, decide whether to use 2D or 3D, see how to implement 2D or 3D, and learn to search and find objects. You'll also get to grips with many other standard features of the Application Programming Interface (API), including create applications and finally testing, licensing, and deploying them. Once completed, you will be able to meet most of the common requirements of any mapping application for desktop or mobile platforms.Style and approachThis comprehensive book takes a completely practical approach, where every chapter explains the important concepts and demonstrates a practical application of them in a hands-on manner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET
• Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785885456
• ISBN 13: 9781785885457
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Build fascinating native Geographic Information System (GIS) applications using this comprehensive, hands on, practical guide.

About This Book

• The only comprehensive book that covers ArcGIS Runtime SDK in depth.A clear, well segregated book that has all the information that you would need on ArcGIS Runtime SDK. Name it, and you will have it in this book.
• Highly practical book that will allow you to build your own custom application by the end of the book.
• Written by Ron Vincent, who has 23 years of experience in the GIS industry and is experienced in GIS training. Learn the inner details of ArcGIS Runtime SDK from our experts.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for .NET developers who want to learn to build native Geographic Information System (GIS) application.

What You Will Learn

• Understand and implement the MVVM pattern using MVVM Light
• Create and add layers from offline and online resources such as ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS for Server.
• Create a 2D or 3D map and decide what kind of symbology and how to symbolize the layers based on the geometry.
• Search and find objects in the layers.
• Geocode an address and create a route using an address
• Edit layer objects from online content and offline content
• Test the application using Test Driven Development and then build and release the application for the intended audience

In Detail

Because this book will focus on the .NET flavor of ArcGIS Runtime, this will provide for the opportunity of covering the primary features of the SDK. However, the first thing it will explain is where ArcGIS Runtime fits within the ArcGIS Ecosystem. How ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online are utilized from the perspective of ArcGIS Runtime will be explain. Esris online help for ArcGIS Runtime provide samples for using the SDK, but it doesnt show users how to implement these features within the context of MVVM. MVVM provides great structure to any .NET app, but implementing with MVVM can be a challenge to the developer. This book wont skip this important aspect of writing a high quality app. Then, the book will describe the primary features of the SDK chapter-by-chapter using some sample non-MVVM code and then show how to do it using MVVM with MVVM Light. The book will also show how to write unit tests that allow the developer to write their apps that are 100% covered. Once the user completes the book, they will have all of the necessary knowledge and skills necessary to write a production level application.

About the Author

Ron Vincent

Ron Vincent graduated with a B.S. in Geography from the University of Utah in 1992. Since then, he has worked in applying GIS to many organizations across many industries for 24 years. His primary experience involves building GIS solutions for the U.S. military, which includes the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. It also includes building custom solutions for utilities, mining, healthcare, banking, commercial business, national parks, and so on. This has amounted to 100+ projects related to implementing Esri's GIS technologies. Because of a variety of industries and projects, Mr. Vincent has had the opportunity to be a developer, analyst, consultant, trainer, and manager of the GIS projects. Over the years, he has developed and conducted both formal and informal training sessions. This includes training parcel mappers in the local government, GIS analysts in many industries, soldiers in the U.S. and foreign militaries, and junior and senior developers using a wide range of technologies. Mr. Vincent lives in North Carolina with his wife Sandy. He has four children (Naudia, Spenser, Zach, and Kjersten). While not working, he enjoys reading (software books, of course) and traveling around this awesome world we live on. For more information, please see his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-vincent-8958145.