Web ADF installation for web development

[meenu.monu]

Dears,I started ESRI development work few wks back.My knowledge is very less in this development side.I am good in writing the code in vb.net in VS2010 .I developed a website with mapping module for tracking the vehicles using another mapping software. Now we planned to move with ESRI. Now my requirement is i need to develop the website mapping module with ESRI software.

For that I installed ArcGIS Desktop 10 evaluation Version.and tried to using ArcGIS API for Silverlight with silveright 4 .If i wanted to use this API then i need more time because silverlight applications is not familiar for me.

Now i saw Web ADF is good for developing applications in vs2010 with VB.net.For that from where i can download webADF for vs2010.

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\DeveloperKit10.0 contains lot of applications.Whether all these are web based or desktop based application?

whether web ADF or silverligfht API is good for developing the website?What is the difference between these two?

i cannot able to run any samples available in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\DeveloperKit10.0.I think it is because of web ADF problem.How can i solve this


Can anybdy help me to clear my doubts.I am still stuck without moving my webproject and with the timeframe from my superiors.


regards
Meenu

[ciava.at]

I advise you to start with silverlight or js or flex because adf is deprecated (
ArcGIS Server 10.1 will be the last planned release for the ArcGIS Server Web ADFs (Application Developer Framework) for both Microsoft .NET and Java )
see
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/20...recation-plan/
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/20...d-silverlight/
http://downloads2.esri.com/support/T...ation_Plan.pdf

[meenu.monu]

this means i shoukld be go with silver light..then y this toolkit giving samples of these with adf???...when i tried dynamic popup project from samples, i cannot make dhml(linq to sql) files because it is showing errors.

[ciava.at]

try post in forum sl http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/19-A...or-Silverlight

[jsn]

Meenu,

The first thing after installing ArcGIS 10 client and server is to set up correctly IIIS otherwise nothing is going to work


http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisserv...000000m000000/

the you have in VS 2008 and VS 2010 a template to create WEb ADF applications.

For example in VS 2008, open VS 2008 and go to File --> New Web Site --> Web Mapping Application. When the applicaiton gets created just open the Default.aspx page and go to MApResourceManager control --> Edit Resoruces and set up the Information Definition to an existing service to opne the application.


Web ADF is not going to be maintained anymore by Esri after version 10.0/10.1 so it is better is you start from scratch to take a look to Silverlight or may be HTML5 + Javascript