—Allan Laframboise, Andy Gup, Jim Barry, Kevin Deege
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ArcGIS is Esris complete system for authoring, serving, and using geographic information. This session will introduce the ArcGIS suite of developer technologies and illustrate the role of ArcGIS in a GIS implementation from a client, server, and database perspective. Gain insight into the software development toolkits and APIs, including .NET, Java, JavaScript, and Flex, as well as other Esri resources. This knowledge will help developers get started building desktop applications, multiuser Web applications, and geodatabase and geoprocessing applications. This is a foundation session that provides context for other sessions in the presummit seminars and in the summit.
Prerequisites: None