Csharp/MapScript

[Sean Gillies]

I wrote the following doc a few months ago, and am pretty sure that  
most of it still applies

   http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq/thread_safety

cheers,
Sean

On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Ian Erickson wrote:

> I'd like to know the answer to this as well...are there things that we
> can do that would promote thread safety - like building MapServer
> without GDAL support?
>
> - Ian
>
> Abe Gillespie wrote:
>
>> Tamas,
>>
>> Isn't there still tremendous threading issues that cause endless
>> problems when hosted in ASP.NET?  Or has that been solved ... or have
>> people found work-arounds?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -Abe
>>
>> On 11/17/05, Tamas Szekeres <szekeres.tamas at freemail.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I recommend to compile mapserver and the related libraries for  
>>> yourself
>>> before using them with ASP.NET. It is highly suggested to use the  
>>> same
>>> compiler version for theese packages (eg VS 2003).
>>>
>>> The Win32 compilation instructions can be found at:
>>>
>>> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc46/win32_compile-howto.html
>>>
>>> to compile use Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt and nmake.
>>>
>>> To compile mapscript:
>>>
>>> 1. download the latest SWIGWin package which contains the Win32  
>>> binary
>>> SWIG.EXE
>>>
>>> 2. edit nmake.opt for referring to the SWIG location
>>>
>>> 3. In Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt cd to mapscript/csharp
>>>
>>> 4. nmake -f makefile.vc
>>>
>>> To test the compilation
>>>
>>> 5. Create an empty ASP.NET C# project
>>>
>>> 6. Add reference to the previously compiled mapscript_csharp.dll
>>>
>>> 6. Use the following code to test the map creation
>>>
>>> private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
>>> {
>>> // Put user code to initialize the page here
>>>        using (mapObj map = new mapObj(@"C:\Maps\MapFiles 
>>> \mymap.map"))
>>> {
>>>    using(imageObj image = map.draw())
>>>    {
>>>  byte[] img = image.getBytes();
>>>  Response.BinaryWrite(img);
>>>    }
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> 7. Before testing the project make sure that all of the dlls  
>>> (depending on
>>> the mapserver compiler options, eg: bgd.dll, gdal13.dll,  
>>> libcurl.dll,
>>> libmap.dll, mapscript.dll, mapscript_csharp.dll, proj.dll) reside  
>>> in the
>>> correct location. I recommend to place the dll-s to the same  
>>> directory as
>>> your target file.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Tamas Szekeres
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:08:06 -0600, Suman G. Pradhan
>>> <sgp_dgtek at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>> Please some one help me finding Csharp/MapScript.
>>>> Why there is no resources related with MapServer and .Net ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>

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