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All ESRI products run on the Microsoft platform and are compatible with Windows server/ clients, developer tools and databases. This close collaboration ensures the highest level of GIS functionality with Microsoft technology.

ArcGIS users have seamless access to Bing Maps with the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Explorer users can directly connect to Bing Maps to enhance their GIS projects.

ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful API for building cross-browser and cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) on top of ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight allows developers to use any .NET framework supported language (e.g., C#, Visual Basic) to add GIS capabilities and consume services from ArcGIS Server and Bing Maps for Enterprise in a Silverlight application. Download now.

An application built with the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight using basemaps from Bing Maps.

ArcGIS – Each product in ESRI’s core product family, ArcGIS, leverages Microsoft’s technology platform in a unique way, providing customers a full range of solutions – out of the box, customized, or Web-based.

ArcGIS Server – ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework is a complete and integrated server-based GIS that provides tools to distribute maps and GIS capabilities across the enterprise. ArcGIS Server also includes APIs for .NET and Microsoft Silverlight/WPF and supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

ArcGIS Desktop – ArcGIS Desktop is a Windows based application for visualizing, managing, creating and analyzing geographic data. The core functionality can be customized and extend with Microsoft’s Visual Studio and the ArcGIS Desktop Software Developer Kit (SDK).

ArcGIS Mobile – This ArcGIS Server powered solution delivers data to a range of Windows Mobile devices. With both an out-of-the-box application and a software developer kit (SDK) based on Microsoft .NET Framework Compact Edition, developers can easily build customized applications.

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