ArcGIS API for Silverlight overview

Microsoft Silverlight provides a cross-browser, cross-platform development environment for building and delivering rich Internet applications (RIA) for the web. The ArcGIS API for Silverlight enables you to integrate ArcGIS Server and Bing Maps services and capabilities in a Silverlight application. You can create interactive and expressive applications leveraging ArcGIS Server and Bing Maps resources, such as maps, locators, and geoprocessing models, and Silverlight components, such as grids, tree views, and charts.

What can you do with the ArcGIS API for Silverlight?

The ArcGIS API for Silverlight enables you to integrate interactive maps and tasks in your applications. For example, you can do the following:

NoteNote:

You can program with the ArcGIS API for Silverlight without installing ArcGIS for Server on your machine if you have access to ArcGIS for Server via a URL. Esri offers several sample servers to use when getting familiar with creating Silverlight applications. The samples use these servers.

What is included in the ArcGIS API for Silverlight?

The ArcGIS API for Silverlight provides the following resources to use in your Silverlight applications:

Getting help

This help system includes easy-to-advanced topics that explain how to use the ArcGIS API for Silverlight.

9/12/2012