I've heard a few rumours that the DWF viewer will deprecated in future releases. A Silverlight-based viewer would be a great replacement for this...
What kind of effort would be required to then bundle that as a WPF desktop API/viewer (still bound by HTTP, or optionally direct server connection over a LAN)? I guess you could probably even repackage MapGuide + Maestro + this control as a desktop GIS SDK, though I'm not sure that the whole repository thing makes sense on a desktop level, and any kind of commercial redistribution would kick in the whole DBXML dual license thing. As an aside, I don't think that the goal should be to create a duplicate of the DWF viewer; something more modular/configurable would be nice. You can do some really awesome stuff with Silverlight... Jason -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Silverlight/Moonlight Viewer Yes, the ActiveX viewer format is called DWF, and it is a format Microsoft intends to support in the next version of Windows (called XPS I think?). Unfortunately, to use it would require some form of deployment to the client machine, until it is standard on all machines. With Silverlight, this poses problems, as it runs in a sandbox, and thus cannot access or install the required component. It might be possible to develop a completely managed DWF library, and that would work, but that would require some heavy work. And yes, you are spot on with your observations on tradeoffs :). _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
