Tom, We are wrapping up work on the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 3) 08.11.09 maintenance release with planned commercial release before the end of the year. I will let you know whether or not the proposed persistent topology event callback fixes make…

Erik, You sample code works fine after adjusting the ZoomFactor argument such as follows: oFeature.ZoomInView CommandState.LastView, 1#, 50#, True I would also recommend setting the last argument to True to handle those features which may have…

Anders, First of all, a spatial overlay operation generates new feature instances, with the feature class name being that of the user defined layer name. Therefore both the geometry and business property values can be read using standard XFM functions…

Greetings Bharat, Are you attempting to use an ad-hoc or registered graphical source connection? Could you send me via mail your solution sources so that I can take a closer look?

As mentioned the TreeForm reference should no longer be necessary. Your OpenFirstOracleGraphicalSouroce method should work as follows: public static bool OpenFirstOracleGraphicalSource(string user, string password) { bool opened = false; if (GeoDataInterchangeAddIn…

Anders, Could you please send me a copy of a design file containing the input map layers and the resulting spatial overlay layer? I would like to review the data to determine what might be occurring.

Erik, While preparing a test case to distribute to my colleagues for additional testing I was able to replicate what you've described. Please do the following for me to confirm: Open your Zoom.mvba test application In the Microsoft Visual Basic…

Greetings, For the Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 3) 08.11.09 release, you will need to refactor some of your code. For example, your connection to the registered Oracle Spatial graphical source can now be done as follows: // This code opens the…

Yes, in addition to MDL (e.g. native C/C++) libraries, Bentley Map provides the XFM Feature Toolkit (XFT) COM object for development using VBA or .NET (e.g. C# or Visual Basic.NET) languages. Depending on your applications functional requirements, you…

Attached is very brief VBA example (and sample design file) which uses XFT to rotate cell feature instances using a "ROTATION" property. Please note this sample does not perform the following verifications... Which cell feature class is being…

Erik, No worries and your memory is absolutely correct as that was in fact one of the VBA example applications I provided during the Bentley Map development workshop at the 2010 Be Together user conference. Hopefully the example will at least provide…

Erik, For polygon collections you can handle them just as you always have, working with a root (collection/container) feature and then the subfeature (member) geometries. You continue to use the MicroStation object library to create and manipulate…

For additional information, please refer to the "Bentley Map XFM Programmers Reference Guide" and "Bentley Map VBA Programmers Reference Guide" documentation delivered with the product. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Praveen, Yes, you can use Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 framework to develop Bentley Map V8 i applications and addins. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Tom, I believe a change request that could potentially expose text string values as business properties for inferred features would be worthwhile. This would allow you to simply open a MicroStation design file in Bentley Map and use the Interoperability…

...unfortunately the capability to programmatically create and define the contents of a "map model" does not exist in the public Bentley Map API at this time. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]