Learning to use mapxtreme, Support resources – Pitney Bowes MapXtreme User Manual
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Chapter 1: Introduction to MapXtreme
Learning to Use MapXtreme
MapXtreme v7.1
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Developer Guide
Learning to Use MapXtreme
MapXtreme has a lot to offer beginning and experienced .NET developers alike. This section
describes several support mechanisms we have created to get you up and running quickly and with
minimal disruption in your development timetable.
Support Resources
MapInfo is committed to supporting new MapInfo developers as well as our long time customers. We
provide a wide variety of tools to help you make the transition or get up and running quickly in the
Visual Studio environment with the following resources.
Raster and Grid Images
New table structure, RasterImageInfo, GridImageInfo.
Related topics: controllable styles: brightness, contrast,
color/grayscale, translucency, one-color transparency.
Label objects and Label
collections
LabelLayer: allows the separate ordering of labels and layers.
LabelSource: information from the data source that is used for
labeling.
Selection object
Selection class: a multi-feature collection of lists of features that
are tied to a table.
Spatial Server connectivity
MI ADO.NET data providers, MapInfo SQL language.
Style Object
Style class: new object model. Styles are now objects, not
properties of other objects; information is stored in column
MI_Style.
Related topics: FeatureStyleModifiers,
FeatureOverrideStyleModifiers in the MapInfo.Mapping
namespace.
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