ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight - What's new in ArcGIS Viewer 3.2 for Silverlight

This topic provides an overview of enhancments in version 3.2 of the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight. The 3.2 release includes many enhancements and bug fixes. These address numerous requests from the user community and leverage functionality provided by ArcGIS Server 10.2 and version 3.2 of the ArcGIS API for Silverlight.

For changes in the previous version, refer to the What's new in 3.1 help topic.

Updates and enhancements

The 3.2 release includes the following updates and enhancements:

Query Layer Tool

The 3.2 release of the Viewer includes a new tool to allow users to query a layer within an ArcGIS Server map service. The tool allows application designers to pre-configure simple or complex queries against the map service layer of their choice and present end users with a simple interface consisting of labels, drop-down menus, and textboxes to specify input values for the query. The source code for the tool has also been made available on ArcGIS Online. For further information about the Query Layer tool, refer to the Querying layers help topic.

Query Tool

URL Parameter Support

The Viewer now supports specifying parameters in the query string of a Viewer application's URL. With this capability, extent, scale, center, zoom level, web map, and place search can each be set by including the corresponding query string parameter in the URL. For developers, the source code for the add-ins enabling this functionality has been made available on ArcGIS Online. For more details, see the URL parameters help topic.

Place Search URL Parameter

Pop-Up Enhancements

At version 3.2, the informational pop-ups that are shown when clicking a feature have been improved. The changes include auto-positioning the pop-up to stay within the map (instead of panning the map to keep the pop-up within view), snappier performance, visual refinements, and, when using a device that supports touch input, the ability to open pop-ups by tapping on features.

Pop-Up Enhancements

Support for accessing content on Portals using Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) or Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) security

The Viewer now supports connecting to ArcGIS for Portal instances that use PKI or IWA security. When specifying a connection to a PKI or IWA secured Portal in the Application Builder, the appropriate credentials prompt will appear automatically. For Viewer applications that include services from such Portals, the credentials prompt will appear when the application is loading.

Windows Authentication Prompt

Support for using secure federated services

Version 3.2 of the Viewer provides full support for using ArcGIS Server services that are federated with an ArcGIS for Portal instance. If access to those services is restricted, the user will be prompted for credentials as needed.

Developer Enhancements - Window Positioning and Initialization Notification

Version 3.2 of the ArcGIS Extensibility SDK for Silverlight also includes a couple key enhancements for add-in developers:

Window Positioning - Using the MapApplication.ShowWindow method, developers can now specify the initial position of windows shown in their add-ins. Additionally, the ShowWindow method now returns a reference to the window, which facilitates monitoring and modification of the window position using the FloatingWindow.HorizontalOffset and FloatingWindow.VerticalOffset properties.
Initialization Notification - The Extensibility SDK includes a new interface at version 3.2 - INotifyInitialized. This interface allows a custom tool or behavior to notify the Viewer when initialization has completed. When implemented by an add-in, the Viewer will defer completion of initialization, including firing the MapApplication.Initialized event, until notification has been received from the add-in.

Visual Studio 2013 integration

The Visual Studio project template included with version 3.2 of the ArcGIS Extensibility SDK for Silverlight is fully integrated with Visual Studio 2013. If you are using Visual Studio 2013, simply install the SDK, and the Viewer project template will become available in Visual Studio's New Project dialog. For further information about extending the Viewer's capabilities with the template, refer to the Visual Studio template help topic. Note that Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 are still supported.

Windows 8.1, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2 Support

At version 3.2, the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight is fully supported on Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. All other previously supported operating systems remain supported at 3.2 as well.

Twelve new languages

Version 3.2 of the Viewer is available in twelve new languages - Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Swedish.

11/27/2013