Download Your Free Trial of Desktop Edition 3.0
The wait is over. ThinkGeo is excited to announce the release of Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 Beta 1, the next generation of our .NET native GIS control for Windows development. Now supporting WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) as well as Winforms, Desktop Edition 3.0 delivers the high-fidelity user experience your audience is demanding.
Exciting New Features
In addition to the new WPF control, Desktop Edition 3.0 Beta 1 brings a host of other upgrades and enhancements to the Windows platform. Leverage GDI+ and WPF drawing for rich visuals, drag-and-drop panning and scroll wheel zooming, WMS support, ZedGraph for powerful charting and graphing, and lots more. Desktop Edition 3.0 is also more customizable than ever, letting you integrate your own custom data formats and giving you full control over low-level classes.
Other features in Beta 1 include:
- Dynamic Refreshing
- Mouse Wheel Zooming
- Full Editing Transaction System
- Spatial Querying & Operations
- Thousands of Supported Projections
- Advanced Drawing Pens & Brushes
- Core Feature Layers (Shapefile, MS SQL 2008, Oracle Spatial, Postgre, etc.)
- Dozens of Sample Applications with C# Source Code
- An Easy-to-Follow QuickStart Guide
- And Lots, Lots More
Limitations in the Initial Beta
A number of features didn't make it into this beta so that we could deliver you the next-generation desktop GIS experience as quickly as possible. Over the coming weeks, we'll be releasing new betas of Desktop Edition 3.0 that include additional features and functionality. A detailed list of the features that are (and are not) available to you in this beta can be found in our Developer Community, in the just-opened News & Announcements section.
How To Get It
What If I Need Help with Desktop Edition 3.0?
If you want to know how to do something with the new Desktop Edition, chances are the bundled sample applications can show you the way. They include dozens of different demonstrations of key features with source code in C#. We've also written a new QuickStart Guide that will walk you through the development of your first map. Our full range of support options includes:
Contact support by email at support@thinkgeo.com, or by phone at:
- 1-866-847-7510 (Toll-free inside North America)
- 1-785-727-4133 (International)
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