ArcGIS & ArcPad 10 SP 1

ArcGIS Version 10 Service Packs have been released.

Donwload the ArcGIS 10 (Desktop, Engine & Server) here.

Download the ArcPad 10 SP1 here. (It is a full ArcPad install)

New ESRI Service Packs Released

For those of you who are not ready to make the switch to ArcGIS and ArcPad 10, Service Packs for both ArcGIS 9.3.1 (SP2) and ArcPad 8.0 (SP4) are now available for download from the following links:

• ArcGIS 9.3.1 SP2
• ArcPad 8.0 SP4

News sparked wild celebrations in the streets of Spain early this morning.

ArcPad 8 - Service Pack 3 Released

ArcPad 8.0 Service Pack 3 is now available for download from the ESRI Support Website.

The service Pack addresses a number of issues, including Windows Vista/Windows 7 compatibility, foreign language support for ArcPad Studio and various performance enhancements. A full list of the issues addressed can be found in the ArcPad 8.0 SP3 Readme file.

Out of interest, we tested Service Packs 2 and 3 on a Trimble Nomad with an AXF file with a single feature class that had:

• 55 attributes
  
• 3 different subtypes
• 25 coded value domains

The time taken from when you digitised a point on the map to when the form displayed was 7 seconds with SP2, but only 2.5 seconds with SP3. General map navigation was also noticeably better.

ArcPad 8 Service Pack 2 Released

Service Pack 2 for ArcPad 8.0 was released over the weekend. It is available from the ESRI website. Fixes include:

• the reduction of drawing flickering
• improvements to symbology and labelling
• a new developer sample
  

A full list of the issues addressed in this released can be found here.

ArcPad 8 Service Pack 1 Released

Good news, ArcPad 8.0 Service Pack 1 and ArcGIS Server ArcPad Extension 8.0 Service Pack 1 have now been released. They can be downloaded from the following link:
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.patchesServicePacks.viewPatch&PID=26&MetaID=1537

Some improvements to note are:
· Improved detection of generic USB Serial Port GPS, Garmin USB GPS, and Bluetooth Serial Port GPS devices on the Windows platform
· Map.Select no longer fails with a script error when used with AXF layers
· Map.Layers(x) returns Nothing if the layer x is not present, as per previous versions of ArcPad
· Improved hardware button support
· Related Table form samples.
· .NET integration samples

More information on the release of Service Pack 1 is available at:
http://downloads2.esri.com/support/downloads/pad_/ArcPad8.0_SP1_ReadMe.pdf