GIS Plugin for VS C# 2005

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

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What use such a plug-in would have in the IDE?

You cannot visualize your code ;)
 
Yes, a framework or plugin which will let one develop GIS applications.
Maybe something like GIS.NET. I haven't used it but wondered if anyone has,
and what they thought about it...or if there is anything better.


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

Thanks
Click to expand...

What use such a plug-in would have in the IDE?

You cannot visualize your code ;)
 
I really like the idea of seeing that my loop counter has run off to Namibia,
but seriously...

I saw your post on dotnet.general. There I suggested ArcGIS
(Expensive/powerful) to Google Earth (Free/functional mapping but limited
analysis).
 
First I would examine this:
http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap

It is an open source GIS "framework" that works on the .NET Framework 2.0.
They are going to release SharpMap 2.0 soon. The info is here:
http://tinyurl.com/3357uf

There are many other GIS products out there. It really depends on what you
are trying to accomplish. For pure mapping, Google maps (MapQuest/Yahoo,
etc.) may be the ticket. For more in depth dicing of information on maps,
you will likely want a framework.

Other .NET GIS bits
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Open Source
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Gecko.NET (http://www.svggis.com/geckonet.aspx)
Geotools.NET (http://geotoolsnet.sourceforge.net/Default.html)
NetTopologySuite (http://nts.sourceforge.net/)
SharpShape (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharpshape)
This last one is more for working with shape files than mapping

Commercial
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GIS.NET from GeoFrameworks (www.geoframeworks.com)
Geobase (www.geobase.info)
CarnacGIS.Net (http://tinyurl.com/y2ftsl)
Dundas Map for .NET (http://tinyurl.com/32dgo5)
ArcGIS (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/index.html)
Manifold System (http://www.manifold.net/index.shtml)
AnyMap (http://tinyurl.com/289zdd)
MapDotNet (http://www.mapdotnet.com/Pages2.0/Index.aspx)
MapMatrix Server (http://tinyurl.com/27ljb3)

Note that map vendors, like TeleAtlas have developers networks
(http://tinyurl.com/2h72fk), as does ESRI (http://edn.esri.com/).

If you want LBS (Location Based Services), AT&T is now in that game, as well
as other carriers. AT&T recently went beta with some LBS bits. It is hard to
get into their program very deep at this time, as it is invite only.

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I've worked with ESRI's ArcGIS. I'm talking a VS plugin. I downloaded one
about a year ago. It was pretty cool and let me put together a GIS page
pretty quickly/painlessly. I don't have my old dev machine and can't
remember where I got it...might have been GIS.NET. I just thought someone
would have used one or another.
 
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