Well, please note that the press release is somewhat American in its style:
1. Everything that MapInfo wants to do is listed. 2. Reality: One step at a time. At the bottom of the press release: >> Availability >> MapInfo expects to release its first product offering based on Microsoft .NET technologies in early 2003. But as Bo mentions MapInfo have been working on this "thing" - not exactly .NET - for quite some years, so they must be close... And I can only agree with Bo, that this must be a major release, that surely will need some good testing before it's being released. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Horsb�ll M�ller, GIS Udviklingskonsulent / GIS-Developer Kampsax A/S - GIS Software & Solutions Rugaardsvej 55, 5000 Odense, DK tel: +45 6313 5013, dir:+45 6313 5008, fax: +45 6313 5090 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.kampsax-gis.dk and www.kampsax.dk Authorized MapInfo Partner & Distributor in Denmark and Norway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Klik ind p� http://www.kortal.dk og se det hele lidt fra oven! Check http://www.kortal.dk and have a look at Denmark from above! ----- Videresendt af Peter M�ller/Kampsax - 14-10-2002 07:35 ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13-10-2002 cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09:41 Vedr.: Re: MI-L MI Pro and COM To Poul - The short version - Don't hold your breath.... The longer version - I first heard about the total "com"-ification of MapInfo before the release of the MI 5.0 beta (I think) from a sales manager from MI Europe. So I was happily awaiting the beta release for MI at that time. At the release of ver. 6.5 I've stopped waiting (happily or otherwise). I find it difficult to believe, that MI can develop a full .Net version (with the necessary rewrite of the MI object model) in the short timeframe from the release of MI 7.0 to now. Otherwise they must have had a large bummer of a job running a parallel "skunk works" development of the .Net version and keeping it in sync with the original MI-Pro. If MapInfo Corp. intends to release a Mi-Pro.Net in the spring of 2003 they must have a late alfa or early beta release ready now. So please MapInfo : Why not release some technical details regarding the object model (ex. objects, events, methods, properties...) for the .Net version ? . It must be the largest program-change in the history of MI-Pro, so it would certainly have the interest of a large group of developers for MapInfo - including me.... Regards Bo Thomsen GeoConsult I/S Denmark -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: CRISP, Paul -Syntegra UK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 11. oktober 2002 12:04 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: MI-L MI Pro and COM Any thoughts on this from anyone ?(from GIS Monitor but seen elsewhere incl on MI site) "MapInfo also stated its commitment to Microsoft's .NET framework this week. According to the release, MapInfo Professional, MapInfo MapX, MapInfo MapX Mobile, and MapInfo MapXtreme will fully support the Microsoft .NET Framework by early 2003. The press release explains the benefits this way: developers who can currently build desktop applications using MapInfo, will, with .NET be able to build Web applications at the same time." .NET and COM are supposed to interoperable. End of integrated mapping?? Whens the next Pro release? Paul Crisp Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Larry Nolan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 October 2002 00:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L connecting to OGC image map service Does the latest version of Mapinfo have the ability to directly connect to an OGC compliant web map service? I have a ton of data in a ESRI ArcIms and SDE/Oracle setup and I would like make the data available to Mapinfo users. The Arcview users connect directly to image map services from ArcIMS and I could make the same map services available to Mapinfo users using ESRI's OGC web mapping service tools if Mapinfo can connect to it. 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