[fdo-users] ArcSDE questions

[George McLean]

Thanks Matt - I can connect, I just do not see the feature class listed 
that I created using ArcCatalog.

Matt Winger wrote:
> Did you copy the dll files from SDE into the Map > FDO > Bin directory.
>
> There's a white paper from Autodesk on how to connect to an SDE server.
> I think they are sde.dll, pe.dll, and sg.dll.
>
> If you don't have those in place it will not connect.
>
>
>
> Matt Winger
> GIS Application Engineer
> mwinger at rand.com
> T: 866-485-5220 x203|C: 517-781-0216
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> [mailto:fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of George McLean
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:13 PM
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> Subject: [fdo-users] ArcSDE questions
>
> I have a few of questions related to ArcSDE.
>
> I am using ArcSDE 9.3 with SQLServer 2005 as the database and the dbo 
> user. I am starting with an empty schema. Through ArcCatalog I have 
> created a line feature class. However, I can not see the feature class 
> listed when I connect through Autocad Map's display manager. When I 
> connect there are no features listed to bring onto the map. Not having 
> much experience with ArcCatalog, I would like to know if creating a 
> feature class is what I need to do to see features in Autocad. If so, 
> are there any special considerations in building the feature class?
>
> Also, at this point there is no data in the feature class. Could this be
>
> why it is not listed in the display manger connection?
>
> Finally, I have some .net code that I use to port data from Autocad into
>
> an FDO datastore. It works with Oracle and MySQL. I am not sure of the 
> connection strong parameters required to connect to ArcSDE. In my code I
>
> create a string as follows:
>
> "service=MyService; username=MyUser; password=MyPass;
> datastore=MyDataStore"
>
> What I am not sure about is what to put in for MyService and MyDataStore
>
> when using ArcSDE.
>
> I have tried the GIS server name for MyService and the schema name for 
> MyDataStore but I can not connect.
>
> Any guidance on any of these questions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> George McLean
>
>
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