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Hey:

I have a need to import Excel/Access files into MapPoint 2009 ActiveX control on an ASP .NET ASPX page. There is quite a bit of talk on this forum on how to embed an ActiveX control on an ASPX page using the object tag and the CLS ID. That works fine. However, I cannot find an object model or even discussion of the ability parameters.

I am currently doing a proof of concept and I need to be able to do the following:

1) Specify Excel and Access file and import into MapPoint so it shows pushpins (or whatever the user chooses) within the ActiveX control. This would be similiar as if the user used the application
2) Specify map point template for use with the import discussed in step 1
3) Save the map to the user's machine

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

All of the MapPoint 2009 objects are documented in the help file.

Start MapPoint and look at the help. The programming information is at the end of the contents. What is documented there is actually pretty good - I wish all software APIs had that kind of description!

You will see that there is an Application object and a Map object (the application's ActiveMap property). I think the method you want is "ImportData" on the map object?


Richard

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All the documentation is geared towards VB6/.NET using the COM object withina desktop application. My need is to embed the MapPoint 2009 ActiveX control within a web page. I am able to do that by using the few examples on this forum that have an object tag and use JavaScript to load a map of North America. After that, I am lost as I cannot find any of the OM. I am able to create a desktop application, reference the MapPoint OCX and successfully load my CSV. Works great. The ImportData method of the DataSets collection doesn't appear to be available via web.

The ActiveX control (and object model) are the same as the COM objects. ActiveX is simply a Microsoft marketing term for COM - especially controls implemented using COM. If you are happy working with ActiveX/COM in general (I realise that isn't a trivial 'if'!) then it should be relatively simple to understand the VB6 examples and translate them to any COM-aware language. I've used MapPoint from a wide range of languages and typically the only hurdle is getting the language's COM interface to work.

Do you have MapPoint installed on the client machines?

BTW, Using the desktop version of MapPoint in a webpage is generally a bad idea. There are usually beter options - eg. the Virtual Earth JS control or the Virtual Earth Web Service - the latter is set to replace the MapPoint Web Service which is still an option.


Richard

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See http://www.mapping-tools.com for MapPoint Tools
See the Geoweb Guru for online mapping

I have MapPoint on all of my clients but I am currently just doing proof-of-concept. The map rendering is actually pretty good. It's fairly responsive and looks nice. I just can't figure out any of the functionality.

Yea, there were discussions of Virtual Earth JS but they decided to go MapPoint. Not 100%.

Is there command line parameters that I could use for MapPoint? Maybe that is another option. To launch the app via the web page programatically. Another option is a desktop app but each client would nee the app installed and that's another headache.

Ttt ttt

Nope, no command lines.

Maybe make a COM Addin that accesses a linked back-end or use Citrix?

Mike Mattys