MapXtreme 2008 - Features
The MapXtreme 2008 SDK is designed for .NET developers interested in incorporating location with their applications.
MapXtreme 2008 New Features
New features for this version of Mapinfo MapXtreme 2008 are focused around enhancing productivity and tight integration, with a strong emphasis on including customer-requested enhancements:
- Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 & 3.5
- Support for Indexing on Foreign Character Sets and Strings
- Numerous Fixes for Critical Customer Issues
Ease of Use
- Full integration with the Visual Studio.NET Development Environment
- Develop applications using drag and drop functionality
- Leverage predefined map templates and sample applications to facilitate rapid application development
- Develop applications using the .NET language of your choice making efficient use of the IT skills within your organization
Single Offering for Web and Desktop Development
- Single SDK for the development of web and desktop applications and solutions
- Efficient sharing of code and knowledge between deployment types
- Common and consistent desktop and web development experience
Interoperability
- Support for IT standards such as Microsoft .NET, ADO.NET and SQL-3
- Support for geospatial standards such as OpenLS and OGC
- Access your data “where it lives” within your organization using standard data access systems and protocols such as ADO.NET, ODBC, Oracle Spatial and Microsoft SQL Server
- Integrate location into 3rd party business intelligence systems within your organization
- Directly access location capabilities such as Geocoding and Routing within your application (using Web Services)
Feature Rich
- functionality and performance due to the use of flexible cursors, source agnostic approach to data and the use of industry standard query language
- curved labeling, improved symbology and fill patterns
- example improved map clarity through the separation of map elements, attribute data and analysis results enabling display placement and draw order control of each element
- return-on-investment
- dialogs facilitates rapid development
Supported Databases and Data Formats
MapInfo MapXtreme 2008 supports a wide variety of spatial and non spatial databases as well as a large selection of file formats. A small selection supported databases are listed below.
- SQL Server 2000, 2005
- MS Access
- Informix IDS 9.4/9.3
- Oracle 9i
- Oracle 9ir1/9ir2
- Oracle 10G
- SpatialWare for Microsoft SQL Server and IBM Informix
