Microsoft silverlight

Microsoft silverlight is the parallel RIA (Rich Internet Application) product to Adobe flex. Cool thing is silverlight applications can be written in .net languages such as C#/VB.net. You don't need to know action script as it requires in flex development. Good for programmers :) . Microsoft Expression Web/Expression studio is a high end tool to easily work with silverlight apps. Expression web can be work with visual studio .net and vice versa. Microsoft also giving you a place to host your silverlight apps and this service is free at the moment. So just give a try...

ArcGIS Sever Silverlight API

ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF enables you to integrate ArcGIS Server and Microsoft Virtual Earth services and capabilities in a Silverlight application.

Following sample is the my attempt to explore the power of ArcGIS silverlight API

Controls (Pretty simple :) ):

• Drag mouse while holding left mouse button to pan
• Use mouse wheel to zoom in and out
• Draw a rectangle from your left mouse button while holding 'shift' key to zoom in to a particular area
• Draw a rectangle from your left mouse button while holding 'shift+ctrl' keys to zoom out to a particular area

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