USA – ThinkGeo is excited to announce the release of Map Suite 3.0 Services Edition Beta 1, the first entry in its next generation of Map Suite GIS developer components for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Services Edition, which replaces Map Suite Engine, has been re-engineered from the ground up to provide a faster, more efficient, and more powerful GIS development experience.
With Map Suite Services Edition Beta 1, developers can create their own Windows services, Web services and console applications that use the power of GIS to deliver relevant spatial data in a high-performance package. At the core of Services Edition is the Map Suite 3.0 API, a totally redesigned, ultra-high efficiency GIS development framework that makes spatial applications come alive.
Optimized for the Visual Studio 2008 development environment, Services Edition’s new API takes Map Suite’s renowned ease-of-coding to the next level. With even fewer lines of code needed to perform GIS functions, better use of IntelliSense and more coherent namespaces, developers can use Map Suite Services Edition to accomplish their goals with greater ease than the competition, or with previous versions of Map Suite.
Other major new features in Services Edition include support for Web Map Service (WMS), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and a wide variety of new spatial data formats like Oracle Spatial, PostgreSQL PostGIS, and Microsoft SQL 2008.
