MapXtreme 2004 Deployment white paper
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1. Dot beasityTiem l Gort jensityIhame thames ner PotbaraityT Thama flyr aourceColumHams County fyetem brawing lt olor Rad potteasityiizse Large 7 lyr Aodi iers maert j Thiis BEL Gp Lees itii i sf Drop punllata l actie Taxe oeche edo yebol Thama i iojeoc Thes bayer ob yn ees retusa Leas Theme there nee de adua ed pede There i lyr Table SS ces eeneees i the 1 Poattivetyiboal ner Simp levectarFointSt ple 14 3yeten Oecewieg Color a5 5 chjthees nee Object ThaweLeper Grad Theme null Chere Ll Baptontpo lt Hepa port Bap baper a bd Col tee Be Tp Lege Cn bette fh i Rebuild and run your application to see the result We could also add a different style of theme to the application To do this requires two steps 1 add the theme style to the pull down menu and 2 add the corresponding code to the if statements in createThematic As you can see in the code the pull down menu is populated programatically rather than using the design page To keep it simple we will add a theme that is a modification of the GraduatedSymbolTheme We just need to add a line at the bottom the section where the list items are created At the end of line 193 put a new line and type the following code DropDownList5 Items Add GraduatedFlagTheme Refer to the figure below 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 11 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXt2. Let s start by looking through the code behind the form Using Visual Studio NET right click anywhere on the form and choose VIEW CODE to display the code page Note All sample applications discussed in this white paper were taken from the 6 0 distribution CD of MapXtreme 2004 The line numbers referenced may not correspond exactly with the code in your installation As you scroll down the code page notice that the majority of the action in the application takes place in the MapForm1 class The first thing we ll change is the data that the application uses to create the theme on Make the following changes e Online 60 change usa tab to mexico tab This loads the Mexico map instead of the USA map e On line 68 change usa to mexico This changes the FeatureLayer we are working with Refer to the image below for guidance to the proper placement of the changed code eneLegend Micresn Vieual CF J Be DE ee mmi Gad Geb ook ices iip f b Fee tee eae 2 1 ppt i gate the mba darme TUL Fe SS ate em amp tine Hini anf Haphemia Zm i EF Theres spand Fasai ig orl i e m 1 J I 1eyBanp Close 1d 1 Seamion Cortent TableSeecchPeth Peth ai ist che Th tabla to the map fraiploetooli fap Loadines BapTeablaloeder oe cen ji Len fiat mop een mpcosiro l l Enp Yicu C hangedEvesi noe Viewlhangediveniaendies ep Tle lheeged r mmpostroll Peri a e mr Eventfandlar rap catroll _ Pesica racte am
3. How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application places In our application the license file is placed in the Program Files Common Files MapInfo MapXtreme 6 x directory where x is the release of MapXtreme 2004 you have installed and a new directory is created which holds our data C MIData To see the web application run open a browser and navigate to the server and choose the virtual directory name This is in the form of http MyMachine ThematicsWeb If you remember in step 4 we specified this name of the virtual directory Now you should be seeing your new web application running Note Due to a problem with the Microsoft Framework you may need to end the web process aspnet_wp exe on your server to have your application show up with no errors This process automatically restarts as soon as you end it so you may notice no change in the Task Manager Managing State and Pooling State and Pooling are issues for web applications to have the server and the application perform at optimum efficiency In this paper we touch on the different topics associated with this technology and for a deeper review of this refer to the MapXtreme 2004 Developers Guide State Web applications need to retain user settings from request to request These settings can include the current map zoom selected objects map center etc Some web objects need to be retained between web requests State is a necessary aspect of most MapXtr
4. cs ireattyls era Tipdece thea bin with the nar Compoeicelicyplis BETELJE Chee binealo Jeyle cep tif GE The SPIE SELL LAGS St Che 1830 DIS int niesk Bia Lin Bin Count Li ce thm fize nbesthin 3 le gee ce dresSeyla ars latericos Steckdcyples blot i lise ple i Cha Binal nLaacbin fityie oy Fay Press F5 or DEBUG gt START to build and run the modified application As you can see the colors of the map have changed to reflect our new settings Now that we have made several changes to the way the map is displayed we need to move the legend as it is blocking some of the map that we want to see We could use the pan tool to move the map around but it is more efficient to move the legend programatically Make the following change on e Online 111 change mapcontroll Size Width legend Size Width to 0 This changes the X coordinate of the legend location to be at the left side of the frame We are leaving the Y coordinate as it is Refer to the image below for guidance of the placement of the changed code 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 6 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application H hemeLegend Micrescd Yieusl CF JE T design tapi ormi or Miall De LE Erect ki big ok ices ji P S OF iA nen 5 tw ig ast the tna are s Rae HP Cl aM EA I Sete Metre olde Hapim ib g Je AF Tep ral ian
5. Samples Features directory in your MapXtreme 2004 installation directory The file is C Program Files MapInfo MapXtreme 6 x Samples Features ThemeLegend cs ThemeLegend sin where x is the release number of the version of MapXtreme 2004 you are using Once the solution is open do a debug build by choosing DEBUG gt START or pressing F5 sl m Bele ES EDK Devine cansa 2 F004 Me Com Area 6 mi 06 808 to 652 620 67 374 te 36 os 4900 to 31 135 t Ete a The map that the application creates is a standard map of the US with a theme based upon the land area of each state The larger states are in blue and the smaller states are in white The legend shows the breakdown The zoom level is not very useful because the map defaults to showing the entire layer Use the tools provided to zoom in on a particular region or zoom out as you choose The tools also allow you to select a region and manipulate the way the layers are displayed using the layer control As you can see building a workable application is quite simple 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 2 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application What happens when the simple application is not enough and you need some more customization The next section details some modifications that can be made to this application as a model for customizing any MapXtreme 2004 solution 2 Modifying Your Application
6. an LHe amp ise Ss E mapti Mpiri inches ma 5 a a CE fjae mee i Mopstiame DMH SON Daren lipar Liia E be kipka Cory Beea LEUSEDI AHE we TRAL Baai The ToolBarButton Collection dialog box is displayed Click the ADD button to add a new button to the ToolBar This appears below the last button in the list Rename the new button mapToolBarLabel in the NAME field Change the button type to LABEL by choosing that from the BUTTONTYPE drop down menu mBan Colitis Lalii Movebers Cie tie erg 4 Teri irrena 2 Click OK to save your changes and close the ToolBarButton Collection dialog box Now you can see the new tool added to your ToolBar 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 8 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application As you can see modifying an existing application is an easy way to achieve your desired results without much trouble Other modifications we could make to this thematic map include e Changing the field on which to base the theme By examining the table structure you could choose population for example Don t forget to update the legend to match e Add additional themes and legends e Add additional tools and buttons 3 Building Your Application Now that you have modified your application you are ready to do a final build Change your build type to Release and build again Web Applications 1 C
7. context switching This is particularly useful when your requests are CPU intensive e g Map image exports The general recommendation is to have a pool size of 1 2 sessions per CPU Configuring Pools Pooled mode creates a pool of ISession instances There is one pool per ASP NET application or AppDomain When an ASP NET request begins the WebSessionActivator acquires an ISession instance from the pool This instance is then available during the execution lifetime of the request by calling Session Current When the request ends the WebSessionActivator releases the ISession instance back into the pool To enable pooling in your application use the following element in your Web config file lt configuration gt lt appSettings gt lt add key MapInfo Engine Session Pooled value true gt lt appSettings gt lt configuration gt Once the pool is configured in your Web config open the Component Services interface of your operating system In Windows XP this is available through CONTROL PANEL gt ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS gt COMPONENT SERVICES In Component Services navigate to CONSOLE ROOT gt COMPONENT SERVICES gt COMPUTERS gt MY COMPUTER gt COM APPLICATIONS gt MAPINFO COREENGINE gt COMPONENTS gt MAPINFO ENGINE SESSION POOLEDSESSION Right click on this last element and open the Properties Choose the Activation tab and change the pool settings here Be rie min een Wed taip T A a AA T ie Comps E i er
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10. ENT This setting causes our installer to lay down the file in the bin directory as a file rather than bundle it into the dll so that it is accessible by the application Okay we re all done creating our package Now build it by choosing BUILD gt BATCH BUILD and checking the Build check boxes corresponding to the Release versions of our ThematicsWeb and setup projects Click BUILD and let it run In the Release directory of our Setup project will be a file called Setup exe and or setup msi Use this file for deployment Deploying Your Application Deploying Desktop Applications Deploying a desktop application can be a trivial process By providing the Setup exe file that you created in the previous pages of this paper to your end user you are in effect deploying the application Simply copy the Setup exe file to a floppy disk or CD ROM and deliver it When the user launches the Setup exe executable file on their desktop computer the installation starts and steps them through the easy steps of installation That s all there is to it Deploying Web Applications To deploy a web application we go through the same steps as we did for the desktop application transferring the file to our server and running the installation there The setup application creates the necessary virtual directory in IIS and places all the other necessary components in the right 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 17 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf
11. NTENT FILES We need to include the content files because the web pages in our application are generated as content rather than executables as in the desktop application Check this by looking at the properties of WebForm1 aspx Build Action should be set to Content 3 We need to add a local directory to hold all of our data so that the application can find it a Right click on the setup project in the Solution Explorer and choose VIEW gt FILE SYSTEM b Inthe File System window right click on FILE SYSTEM ON TARGET MACHINE and choose Add Special Folder c From the resulting list choose CUSTOM FOLDER Change the name of this folder to CDrive In Properties set DEFAULTLOCATION to c d Right click on the CDrive directory and add a folder called MIData e Right click the MlData folder and add in the data The files we are including are GRID15 DAT GRID15 1D GRID15 MAP grid15 TAB OCEAN DAT OCEAN ID OCEAN MAP ocean TAB WLDCTY25 DAT WLDCTY25 ID WLDCTY25 IND WLDCTY25 MAP widcty25 TAB WORLD DAT WORLD ID WORLD IND WORLD MAP world TAB world mws WORLDCAP DAT WORLDCAP ID WORLDCAP IND WORLDCAP MAP _ worldcap TAB 4 While we are looking at the File System Window highlight on the Web Application Folder and open the Properties Window Change the VirtualDirectory name to ThematicsWeb This is the place where we can specify the virtual directory name for the target machine 5 Now we need to add our license file For web applications y
12. Range tO EqualRangeSize This changes the distribution method so that each range covers a similar amount of the value Refer to the image below for guidance of the placement of the changed code 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 4 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application Tika g a G 4 3 E i a 1 d JheeneLegend Micreed Yheual CE MEI design apl amn i ct ee Emed Bed hg ook Wires jip Cr kB en nine Fy a os E Muashereil x fay Pop ori ot ae Hear i Of Thareel_eqencd Hagar A Tace A rangs chess on the USA dager Nap mag pagContrioli Hapi gif gei the tock r Te eE s ES te Me Featurebayer Let mp Leavers mekice aS Bapinio Mapping Peatirebeyeers BengedTheee ihm cee Rapin Bappinog Therest ics Paaged hers j itr Hound El krea Ob aqmi Spherical 4 7 iras jaguars wiles Bap lato fappiiey Thea its karrika itnierthod fps lfounn Per range Lit Bedi Piers dppesel EEn i tange tha dewalt fall oolices rom Beci fGrey TE ireaityle ara et the ecyhe from oar first bin Cie LoesoPle Ss che BLAS 0 angie Ai Lh f iii pra ftyle acs cm krea tylai Thanga tha fill colo SEB IJBGSCicg Stogkatrjan UhirariljarILELli y AAJ Ghita gt 0 lo Press F5 or DEBUG gt START to build and run the modified application As you can see the number of t
13. This white paper is designed as a tutorial to demonstrate the simplicity of creating packaging and deploying a MapXtreme 2004 application At the end of this tutorial you will have gone through all the steps to successfully develop package and deploy a well implemented mapping application This white paper assumes that you have already successfully installed Visual Studio NET and are familiar with the use of the product If you are not familiar with Visual Studio NET there are many resources available on the Microsoft MSDN web site Look at You should also have fully installed MapXtreme 2004 All code segments described are in C For many of the sample applications we provide Visual Basic NET samples also In this white paper How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application Creating Your Application The first step is to create an application This section will step you through this process first from a the point of view of creating a desktop application and then from the perspective of creating a web application Desktop Applications 1 Choose Your Template For this example we are going to choose one of the thematics sample applications provided with MapXtreme 2004 All the sample applications provided with MapXtreme 2004 were created from the map application template provided in the product Using Visual Studio NET open up the solution for the sample application called ThemeLegend located in the
14. and choose FILE gt ADD PROJECT gt NEW PROJECT b From Setup and Deployment Projects select SETUP WIZARD which steps you through the project creation process 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 13 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application gt Birne ji iy upnani mnre pn jaeege bidapi anms Demge A De Git iea Enoet pas Deug Dga ah ice p F i ag E E p iie E a a Gl oy e i J be i oS 1 TENE tetera ce espn e ea a ia p gg miin Therein O proja a ural E EJ Papkin Froda D raana Angus D Veal CE Projects q j vua ii Proin Zl Soul and bepkinaneel Feu DJ the Preface crmade a Wirda aiai primck oth Sen d of a irard Liin E Fe rara Sabo eae bd Branit Piok eal be isoset 021M Dairemis i r Sabo Primed l need a w Jo jol AoE ia c Follow the screen prompts 2 In step 2 of 5 select to CREATE A SETUP FOR A WINDOWS APPLICATION Click NEXT 3 In step 3 of 5 select the project outputs to include in your setup file Choose to add Primary output Click NEXT 4 In Step 4 of 5 add in the files that contain your data Click the ADD button and select your files to add to the project In this case we are adding in the following files e MEXICO DAT e MEXICO ID e MEXICO IND e MEXICO MAP e mexico TAB Click the Next button to see the summary of your actions 5 Click FINISH to create your setup appli
15. ates D COR appliances a NET hitina it Eepkoney COH QC Dead Hia Cams chee COM Liitin L 1S iPr Apki Ea Tie Tann aes rien TH ut 0 Focese Pred Applications ee aapi pboep Moget d Berini i ic TE Erabi iyd posing Maidi iini y 4 Sa Cepen ao H Hapin Engra Seni Poo i E ceip Comparer Baoe Creations Traila ck Minera ire yee are a AG Sothea Shain Copy Proce ii Trim Appia ii Gy oto cong a L Deptribared ascii oraa a J Sarg frome I Eag sires Corsi upton Ch iets a che Caii a pistine piter iii D Corpasen appoi semi ened iiai I Erabi in Tres Asiaan T phm he pihai inbhe paie poies T Ma be piewe inthe deial poaa 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 19 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application You can configure a minimum and maximum pool size The minimum size specifies how many ISession instances should be created when the pool is first accessed The maximum size specifies the maximum number of pooled ISession instances to create This paper described several ways that you can take the provided tools in MapXtreme 2004 and modify existing sample applications to meet your own needs As you work with MapXtreme 2004 you will find many other ways to achieve your aims as well as come up with new ways to use and display your data The key is to continue to experiment and figure out ways to develop solutions that make your users tasks even easier to work
16. cation Visual Studio NET will then display the File System of the new setup project 2 Add a License File In order for your customer to be able to view your application you need to install a desktop license file to your application MapXtremeDesktop lic Refer to your user s manual about acquiring additional license files for distribution For this paper we are going to include a copy of the Trial license so you see the steps involved 1 Activate the FILE SySTEm SETUP tab 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 14 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application 2 Click on the Application Folder icon 3 Right click and add a file In this case we are choosing the file named MapXtremeTrial lic found in c Program Files Common Files MapInfo MapXtreme 6 x Choose MapXtremetTrial lic in the file picker and click Open The file is now added to your setup project and will be installed with the other application files into your application folder 3 Build It Now build this project and a Setup exe file is created that contains all the data compiled code and included necessary MSMs for the project This Setup project is also part of your Visual Studio NET solution so that when you build the entire solution Visual Studio NET will compile and build the mapping application and then compile and build the Setup file for installation If you execute this setup file on another
17. computer the entire application with the all the necessary files will be installed there That s all there is to it Web Application Packaging Creating a package for a web application is similar to creating a package for a desktop application To start we are going to add a new project to our solution This time instead of choosing the setup wizard we are going to choose a Web Setup Project Follow the steps below 1 Create a new Setup project within your solution a Inthe Solution Explorer highlight the Solution and choose FILE gt ADD PROJECT gt NEW PROJECT b From Setup and Deployment Projects select WEB SETUP PROJECT which will create a setup application specific to a web project chads dob oF jets eee aint al sims Theat tsb vr teh gong i ets contig m cR nien Nees Msami Ws B E Bacitrema Prepac 2 ma j Vrun Bak hoes E vece Paiet Shefit Wak Shus Ferge Miidu H Anai arar Proa Promi a lik D eam 4 Sahu Winer Cab re Craie c Wraran katalar vab orci ko arach Vier can bon sidl Mame Terren Promi i za mesed e Ci ma rdo Promier Tharat ete a ea oe ae eS See 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 15 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application 2 The next step is to indicate which parts of the solution to include Right click on the Setup project and choose ADD gt PROJECT OUTPUT Select PRIMARY OUTPUT and CO
18. eme 2004 applications If you are developing a web application you need to configure how the Session is saved The Session state can be set to either InProc StateServer SQLServer or Off When you use InProc state is preserved using persistence and settings are kept in memory until the application is ended and you save to a workspace mws If you set your Session mode to either StateServer or SQLServer the serialization method of preserving state is used Serialization is the conversion of the particular objects in your application to a stream of data that is stored on the server and deserialized retrieved when the same object is requested again by the application Pooling Advantages to Using Pooling Pooling helps reduce the number of concurrent MapInfo Engine Session instances This occurs when you have an application that has several ASP NET sessions at the same time Pooling helps to optimize the server s resources The more ISession instances you have in your process the more resources are used A web application that has several ASP NET requests running concurrently can use pooling to improve overall response time By pooling the MapInfo Engine Session instances you reduce the number of requests running at the same time which actually maximizes CPU utilization by 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 18 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application reducing thread
19. ere the display attributes are listed line 248 themel PositiveSymbol new SimpleVectorPointStyle 54 System Drawing Color Coral 60 The changes made include changing the display symbol to a flag the maximum display size to 60 and the color to Coral There are many of ways to change this application and we have only pointed out a few of them The aim of this white paper is to show you how to modify the existing samples that we have provided to create customized applications that fit your needs 3 Build Your Application Now that our modifications are done change the build option to Release and then build the entire solution again It is in Release mode that you want to package your application which is covered in the next section Packaging Your Application Desktop Application Packaging Now that your application is designed coded and built it is time to package it for delivery to your users MapXtreme 2004 was designed to make this process as simple as possible Using features in Visual Studio NET as well as automation in MapXtreme 2004 the correct merge modules will be included in your package A merge module MSM is a single package that contains all files resources registry entries and setup logic necessary to install a component 1 Create The Setup Project Follow these steps to complete your packaging 1 Create a new Setup project within your solution a Inthe Solution Explorer highlight the Solution
20. heme bins has increased and the distribution has changed Now let s change the colors each range uses for display We can set each bin to have a particular color or we can write the code so that the colors range from one hue to another and all we specify is the first and last color In the code right now the color ranges from white to blue Let s change the color to range from blue to red Make the following changes e Online 84 change whiteFillStyle to BlueFillStyle This changes the color for the first bin e Online 94 change BlueFillStyle to RedFillStyle This changes the color for the last bin Every bin in between will have a shade between the two colors Refer to the image below for guidance of the placement of the changed code 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application d ienelegend Micreen Flows CF MEI design apo co Di M Gmi bid Debug Tok Wircion ijp P n e being gi ri Da iha r ae TEH Rap we EE aR Hapai Of Thersa agend Fiagoarmii i Mego T fe Lar Bodi isra kppandjthmj bange the defenic Fili joes from Red tiray ta Uh ipta ple ari Get Eha gle feo oe fiit bin CompcecieeStyle ce tha Bins U Styla i Get the ragion dram style ace of ineainyies bange The Fill odor ars Interior Brockseyied thiceFi lise yer Dpigke tis Compogiie eyle sith the one tegien culir
21. hoose your Template For this example we are going to choose a Web Thematics sample application that is provided with MapXtreme 2004 Open up the solution file from the sample application called ThematicsWeb the file is C Program Files MapInfo MapXtreme 6 0 Samples Features ThematicsWeb cs ThematicsWeb sIn Once the solution is open do a debug build by pressing F5 or DEBUG gt START D eshlar Micerarlt leader pet iploar Et eet Apamea T Hiei Legend abject ii ned set for ihis LegendContral Inet huss aie There Creati Themi Bs Le i jinne 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 9 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application The web page that is displayed contains a map of the world and a pull down menu listing different themes to be applied as well as a link that applies the themes In the lower left hand corner are the standard tool buttons that are included in MapXtreme 2004 web templates Zoomin ZoomOut Pan Center and Distance Every theme that is added creates a legend in the LegendControl on the page The DotDensityTheme and the GraduatedSymbol are created based upon an included MS Access database worldcap mdb using the population of world capitals to determine the values As you can see creating a sophisticated web application is quite simple This particular web application is a good example of what is possible to create using MapXt
22. m1 aspx cs tab If the tab is not visible in the Solution Explorer right click on WebForm1 aspx and choose VIEW CODE This opens the code behind page of the web form Add the following code to the LinkButton18_Click object sender System EventArgs e method line 278 RemoveAllThemes This code calls a previously defined function that clears the map of any themes By building and running the application again you can see that the particular problem has been fixed Next we can modify the themes to have different colors CreateThematic is responsible for this process and uses a series of if steps to achieve this In the if statement that deals with the DotDensityTheme find the parameter that deals with the color of the dots In the sample this value is currently Red We can change this to any color we like from System Drawing Color choose RoyalBlue as it shows up nicely against the green map color line 230 Let s next change the color of the Graduated Symbols in the same manner On line 239 change Red tO Chocolate Refer to the figure below for guidance on the placement of changed code 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 10 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application y Bicot Tanal CF HLI degige Weh arat asper gi gst tea traits 7 JETE Y Aim EE NR lyr Nodi isra Immert O there i Setap Legend fhe i af DroploenbhistS Selectediter Text
23. ou need a valid copy of MapXtremeWeb lic for your users to be able to access any maps For this example we are using the trial license that comes with your version of MapXtreme 2004 For deployment licenses contact your MapInfo sales associate a Inthe File System window right click on FILE SYSTEM ON TARGET MACHINE and choose Add Special Folder b From the resulting list choose COMMON FILES FOLDER c Right click this folder and add a Folder and entitle it MapInfo Continue to create nested folders for Mapxt reme and 6 x where x is the release of MapXtreme 2004 you have installed so that your file tree resembles the figure below 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 16 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application Pakage Trial ke s a g Web ipi mon Pandas d Right click 6 x and add a file In this case we are choosing the file named MapXtremeTrial lic found in c Program Files Common Files Maplnfo MapXtreme 6 x 6 For this application there is one more step to make sure that it works properly on an external server We need to make the file worldcap mdb available for the application to access as it is integral to creating some of our themes Find this file in the Solution Explorer and highlight to examine the properties for it if it is not visible click the Show All Files button at the top of the Solution Explorer Change the setting of BUILD ACTION to CONT
24. p ranged chame on che O94 Jager Aap map maptontroli am FearwreLayer lyr map lagers use as Aaplafo Pagping FearcureLaperti Dende Eh Gee Mpina Rapping Theat ice Raaged Theme Ies Found El krem Ob aq mi Sptacicel 1 iran Jaguara hm TOE Build and run this version of the application to see what changes have taken place 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 3 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application Area jag tri Oo OS da o 0 Gore There is a clear difference in that we are using a different data source for our map We can pass in any data source that fits this theme by changing those two lines Next let s change the way the theme is displayed By manipulating the parameters passed to the RangedTheme constructor we can change the way the theme is calculated and displayed Place your cursor over the place in the code where the theme is created and press F1 line 69 The help topic for this call is displayed and you can read through this to see what each parameter does when it is passed to the constructor Make the following changes oo toI e Online 73 change 5 to 8 This changes the number of bins for the theme A bin is a particular section of the data that matches a given parameter By changing this number we will have divided the data into more categories e Online 74 change EqualCountPer
25. reme 2004 We can modify this application to more closely match our users needs The next section details some modifications that can be made to this application as a model for customizing any MapXtreme 2004 web solution 2 Modify Your Application In this section we are going to detail modifying this application to include more data fix a functionality anomaly and change some of the display attributes of the themes as well as add a new one to choose from First let s add in a table to be included in the display In the desktop application we modified above we changed the data source programatically This time we are going to change it in the MapControl directly Display the design page WebForm aspx by clicking on that item in the Solution Explorer Click once in the MapControl and open the properties window At the bottom of the window click the link CLEAR MAP to remove all tables currently loaded Now click the LOAD Map link to select available data sources Choose world mws for a fuller data set As you see this workspace includes a grid the ocean and a layer of world capitals Second let s look at the aberrant behavior of this web page If you apply all three themes you will notice that once you apply the Graduated Symbol theme it does not get removed when applying a new theme This can be fixed by forcing the application to remove all themes before applying a new one Bring the code window to the front by clicking on the MapFor
26. reme 2004 Application desigs Weblar m eae Bn tates fp ea inte Reuea Ate 2 D2 AR is faPosrdack reg ff Ber initial atate of the map Ferov ili Thams iji i DartoreStetai f Poe usr gode ta initialis che page here if DaPostiack i Peapbownh ist tiss ddd iadividmaitales Thee Beopleres ist Teme idd Dee herri yThema Broploemliec Teen idd SreduwtedS ynka There l Gepricomtro ki Hap Bapcontroli Aspi if EapCootecii Bag Legends mint ih i legim Kontrali Legati Ragtonttet1 hep Legends 1 V privare wold Becuplegesd 1 Theme tim i Legemditontroli Hap Rap oorrold Hapi Now highlight and copy the if statement that contains the GraduatedSymbolTheme clause lines 235 to 243 Paste these lines below the section where you copied them Make sure that you keep the pasted if statement outside the one above desig Wehfar ee Lie FECL aN S z Dothansitp Ihes theme neu Bae Deporte The J pT wourcecolusHems County System brewing Solor Red Docent pace Large y dyr foditiercs Insece j chee i Bet hig Legend Ce betes i 2004 MapInfo Corporation All rights reserved 12 MapXtreme2004_Develop pdf How to Create Package and Deploy a MapXtreme 2004 Application Change the new if statement as follows 1 Change the if statement to read line if DropDownList5 SelectedItem Text GraduatedFlagTheme 2 Change the line wh
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