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

Thanks

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
>
>
>

What does GIS stand for?

<%= Clinton Gallagher

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

clintonG <nobody [at] nowhere.com> wrote:
> What does GIS stand for?

Google for "define: GIS"

(Geographic information system)

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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 <nobody [at] nowhere.com> wrote:
>> What does GIS stand for?
>
> Google for "define: GIS"
>
> (Geographic information system)
>
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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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clintonG <nobody [at] nowhere.com> 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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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]" <skeet [at] pobox.com> wrote in message
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> clintonG <nobody [at] nowhere.com> 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 - <skeet [at] pobox.com>
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk

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


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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]" <skeet [at] pobox.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.225f07b9d8497d1ac57 [at] msnews.microsoft.com...
>> clintonG <nobody [at] nowhere.com> 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 - <skeet [at] pobox.com>
>> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
>> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk
>
>

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" <nobody [at] nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Are you referring to a plugin from ESRI who develops GIS(ystems) or
> MapWindow perhaps?
>
>
> "Randy" <temp [at] temp.com> wrote in message
> news:O3ysVGelIHA.3876 [at] 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]" <skeet [at] pobox.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.225f07b9d8497d1ac57 [at] msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> clintonG <nobody [at] nowhere.com> 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 - <skeet [at] pobox.com>
>>> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
>>> World class .NET training in the UK: http://iterativetraining.co.uk
>>
>>
>