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Which silverlight developer should learn to use arcGIS silverlight?

I am already familiar with Silverlight programming, but have no experience with GIS.

my role as a silverlight developer is only to display existing GIS data.

If you have experience with arcGIS silverlight control and api , what else do you think I need to learn to be able to use ?.

any background information on training can be helpful. thank.

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you don't need much, you can dl SDK from ESRI and then check their help site , they have a lot of examples, both downloadable source and live samples (with source). If you have a license, you can use bing maps in the ESRI silverlight control - there are assemblies in the SDK for this.



as an aside, the SDK also includes WPF assemblies.

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This helps to have a basic ESRI Map and Graphics object model approach for any of their APIs (they all have similarities). The Silverlight API is much simpler than the Arcobjects API, but shares many of the same patterns.



If you are doing specific operations (such as calculating distances, annotating a map, etc.) there may be very specific concepts that will help. Can you ask a question with more details about your goal?

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I have done several different projects that used GIS data. I have not tried arcGIS but have used Bing Maps ( http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2009/03/18/introducing-the-virtual-earth-silverlight-map-control.aspx ) and the ThinkGeo Silverlight component ( http://gis.thinkgeo.com/Microsite1/MapSuiteSilverlight2/tabid/709/Default.aspx?adcampaign=Map+Suite+Silverlight+Edition&leadsource=Google&adgroup=Silverlight+General&adwordtype&seidkey=Silverlight+General&adwordtype=seid CIu976aW0Z0CFZ1h4wodwGsDsA ).

I think Bing Maps is very easy to use and there is a lot of help available on the web. Maybe this can help you with some initial resources for argGIS ?!

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Chris is right. There are enough samples on the help site. I have no Silverlight skills, so I really struggled with this and I was against it too. I think the Silverlight learning curve is much steeper.

I tried to connect GIS tools / buttons to a ribbon control. It worked, Silverlight developer did better: View esri-silverlight-toc-png

If you just need to control visibility, between services. It is very easy. Or if you have one service with layers inside that you need to manage ... that's easy too.

But if you need both, you'll have to flip your own layer. I hooked it up to a tree, but it doesn't look sexy. ESRI can now better control TableofContents, they didn't when I fiddled with it: View esri-silverlight-png

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