GIS Dev Cafe

Where I work, we have numerous products currently in development, all of which I may be working on at any given time. Well, I had recently upgraded my ArcGIS 9.1 version to the current 9.2 version to work on GIS Server development. A week later I was back developing an application to be deployed on 9.1. In order to build I had to uninstall all 9.2 installations and reinstall 9.1.

I popped the “engine developer” disk in and got to the custom setup and to my dismay, no .Net option was available. I tried a couple of other disks and still no luck. Well after some time of scratching my head I realized that I am working on a new machine that had 9.2 initially installed and that there was not an instance of the “Microsoft 1.1 .Net Framework” installed. I installed this and then reinserted the developer disk, and wallah… .Net was an option once again.

Long story short, it is the stupidest, littlest things that will hijack your time! I would be more upset of course, if it wasn’t ESRI, as this is not an isolated occurrence.

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