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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
What's new in ArcMap: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcCatalog: other changes in version 9.0

What's new in ArcCatalog: General

What's new in ArcCatalog: Data conversion tools

What's new in ArcCatalog: Internet data

What's new in ArcCatalog: Metadata
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 9.0

Introducing the new Maplex for ArcGIS extension

What's new in 3D Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Publisher and ArcReader

What's new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Survey Analyst

What's new in ArcPress for ArcGIS

What's new in ArcGIS StreetMap
Getting started

What is ArcGIS Desktop?

ArcGIS geodatabase

ArcGIS geoprocessing

ArcGIS geovisualization

ArcGIS Desktop extensions

GIS data structure types

Data types supported in ArcGIS
Desktop Administration

Administering the ArcGIS License Manager

Checking license availability

Viewing and changing the license manager

Common license manager problems and how to solve them

Setting the software product

Registering ArcView or ArcEditor and extensions

Evaluating an ArcGIS extension
ArcCatalog
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Getting started with building a geodatabase
Creating new items in geodatabases

An overview of creating new items in a geodatabase

Geodatabase items

ArcGIS data types

Setting an appropriate geodatabase spatial domain

Schema locking

Creating feature datasets

Creating feature classes

Creating a table

Adding COGO fields to a feature class

Creating indexes

Granting and revoking privileges

Compacting the database
Importing data
Topology

An overview of topology in the geodatabase

Topologies and ArcCatalog

Topology and feature geometry

About creating a topology

Creating a new topology

Migrating data into a geodatabase to create topologies

Adding new feature classes to your topology

Creating new polygons from lines

Validating a topology

Planning for exceptions

Refining topologies with subtypes

Managing a topology

Modifying a topology

Summarizing topology errors

Topology and versioning

Topology and versioned databases

Dirty areas and versioned topological feature classes

Error features and versioned topological feature classes

Exceptions and versioned topological feature classes

Conflicts and topology features

Topology and disconnected editing
Subtypes and attribute domains

An overview of subtypes and attribute domains

Browsing the attribute domains of a geodatabase

Creating new attribute domains

Modifying and deleting attribute domains

Associating default values and domains with tables and feature classes

Creating subtypes

Modifying and deleting subtypes
Defining a relationship class
Geometric networks

What is a geometric network?

Geometric networks and ArcCatalog

An overview of creating geometric networks

Network connectivity rules

Creating a new geometric network

Building a geometric network from existing simple feature classes

Creating new feature classes for your geometric network

Establishing connectivity rules

Managing a geometric network

About Verify Network tools and commands

Identifying network build errors
Managing annotation
Dimensioning
Working with a versioned geodatabase

An overview of versioning

Integrating versioning with your organization's work flow

Registering data as versioned

Creating and administering versions in ArcCatalog

Working with versions in ArcMap

Editing and conflict resolution

Editing a version

Versioning scenarios
Disconnected editing

An overview of disconnected editing

How disconnected editing works

The master geodatabase

The check-out geodatabase

Preparing a check-out

Checking out geometric networks

Checking out topologies

Checking out related data

The check-out process

About checking in data to a master geodatabase

Delta databases and XML files

Checking in geometric networks

Checking in topologies

Checking in related data

The check-in process

Working with version 8.3 and 9 geodatabases

Checking out data from a geodatabase

Checking in data to a geodatabase

Managing check-outs
Building geodatabases with CASE tools
Building a raster geodatabase

Rasters and the geodatabase

Performance tuning

Creating raster datasets in a geodatabase

Creating raster catalogs in a geodatabase

Loading and importing rasters

Exporting raster formats

Mosaicking raster datasets

Attributes of type raster

Raster data and disconnected editing

More details about rasters in ArcGIS

Upgrading your 8.x raster catalog

Updating your geodatabase raster catalog footprints
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Getting started with writing geoprocessing scripts
Accessing tools within a geoprocessing script
Batch processing with geoprocessing scripts

About batch processing with geoprocessing scripts
Messaging and script tools
Data properties and access when scripting

Describing data in a geoprocessing script

Data access using cursors in a geoprocessing script

Working with geodatabases in a geoprocessing script
Scripting Object: Properties and methods

IGPDispatch object

Geoprocessor programming model
Properties and Methods

AddError method

AddMessage method

AddReturnMessage method

AddToolbox method

AddWarning method

CheckExtension method

CheckInExtension method

CheckOutExtension method

CheckProduct method

Command method

CopyParameter method

CreateObject method

Describe method

Exists method

GetMessage method

GetMessages method

GetParameter method

GetParameterAsText method

GetReturnCode method

GetSeverity method

GetSystemEnvironment method

InsertCursor method

ListDatasets method

ListEnvironments method

ListFeatureClasses method

ListFields method

ListIndexes method

ListRasters method

ListTables method

ListToolboxes method

ListTools method

ListWorkspaces method

MaxSeverity property

MessageCount property

OverWriteOutput method

ParameterCount property

ParseFieldName method

ParseTableName method

ProductInfo method

QualifyFieldName method

QualifyTableName method

RefreshCatalog method

RemoveToolbox method

SearchCursor method

SetParameter method

SetParameterAsText method

SetProduct method

TemporaryMapLayers property

TestSchemaLock method

Toolbox property

UpdateCursor method

Usage method

ValidateFieldName method

ValidateTableName method
Customizing the user interface
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers