Sometimes when inserting records programmatically you want to create a parent record first, then add records into related tables where the Foreign Key is on an autonumber field. Therefore you need to ... read more

When running instances of SQL Server on laptops/PCs, it can be troublesome allowing others on the network to connect to them. Keith Westcott has written up this guide. Obviously paths may need to be... read more

If you are experiencing poor performance/responsiveness whilst editing features in ArcGIS v10 this can in many cases be remedied by turning off the new snapping tools, which are on as default in... read more

There’s a weakness in Access/JET that if a expression outputs a string longer than 255 characters

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Mike has pointed out a potentially useful tool for our web projects.

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I have set up a SQL Azure 90 day trial (as of 18th November) to test whether ArcSquirrel can work

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Windows Live Writer is a great blog authoring tool that we use with this knowledgebase (a mojoPortal blog + pages). Since we are often posting code snippets, here are a couple of useful plugins. They ... read more

If you have a complicated multi-project solution where Visual Studio 2010 is starting to take a while loading – try adding this extension which by default causes projects to only load on demand.... read more

There are a variety of ways to do this, but often you will hit issues with data validity. If you have our ArcGIS Maplink product (or ArcSquirrel) then loading data in using this into a... read more

The registration files (world files and tab files) for all Ordnance Survey raster datasets can be downloaded from: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/geo-referencing.html These are... read more