Following the DeveloperHub Conference, ESRI (UK) has released the material from the presentation. These are available on their site. This conference was an opportunity to get the latest news in for the most awaited ArcGIS 10. The following presentation gives the latest news.

There seems to be a lot of exiting news feature forecasted with ArcGIS 10. Here is a quick non exhaustive summary of the presentation.

ArcGIS Desktop:

-          Dynamic TOC

-          Integrated Search

-          ArcCatalog now integrated in ArcMap, for easier access to the data

-          Better graphs and reports

-          Performance improvement:

  • Fast map display
    • New Basemap layer
    • Easy to create and manage
  • Fast map navigation
    • Continuous pan and zoom
    • Mouse or keyboard control
  • Fast high quality
    • Map ServicesMaplex
    • Cartographic Representations

-          Improved Editing

  • EasyDataEntry2Dand3D
  • SymbolBasedEditing
  • Pre-attributedFeatures

-          Map Generation improvement

  • Easier creation of multiple map scale, with the use of generalisation

ArcGIS Server

-          More flexibility in the install process

  • Separate GIS Services Setup and Web Applications Setup.
  • Install the Web services endpoints on their own
  • Services portion of Manager is an optional installation
  • Applications portion of Manager for creating and administering Web applications is a third optional piece.

-          Increased monitoring of SOC processes

  • ArcSOCMon.exe, runs on each server object container (SOC) machine, monitoring the state of the SOC processes

-          Logging offloaded to SOCs

-          New feature service:

  • REST, Stateless and fast, simple view of the Geodatabase
  • Exposes access to vector feature geometries and attributes.
  • Supports feature editing through JavaScript, Flex, and Silverlight applications. This includes new widget for data editing.
  • Works with ArcGIS Feature Templates
  • New AMF output support