MapInfo Pro Developers User Group

http://www.pbinsight.com/support/product-downloads/item/mapbasic-v17.0-download

What are the 3 new features Ticia??

• Extensibility Framework based on a .NET API for creating applications to use the new Ribbon interface and all its new controls and customization properties, a Docking Manager, multiple new Event Handlers, and more.
• A .NET Table Object Model for .NET AddIn Developers to take advantage of a new Catalog of open tables that is kept up to date as tables are opened and closed. You can list the tables, open and close tables and get all the properties of a table.
• MapInfo Data Access Library provides a set of classes and interfaces that allows .NET developers to create MapInfo Pro Addins that can easily Create, Search, and Update MapInfo Tables and other supported database formats such as Oracle, SQL Server, GeoPackage. The Library is based on a subset of the MapInfo MapXtreme ™ SDK product, mainly the Data Access functionality.

And many more - the release notes have a list of quite a few more: http://reference1.mapinfo.com/software/mapbasic/english/17.0/MapBasicReleaseNotes.pdf

These sound like jumbo features!

Hello Ticia,

Does PB has in its plans to offer a training on MapBasic to cover the new programming required for the Ribbon interface. I have been struggling to migrate to the new versions of MIPro, I have a lot of applications for my daily jobs and simply don't understand how the new programming works. I have read the articles by Peter Horsbøll Møller, The Great Sensei, but still cant seem to figure it out.

Will appreciate your feedback, Thank you.

Roger Fraites

Hi Roger

We have created a group here on Li360 called MapInfo Pro v17 Transition Team, https://li360.pitneybowes.com/s/group/0F980000000Tcj3CAC/mapinfo-pro-v17-transition-team.

Here we help people looking to cross over to the 64 bit World from the 32 bit World. This also included giving you a hand to get smallish applications working in MapInfo Pro 17.0.

Maybe post one of your tools there, if possible, and we can give you some hints to porting it to 64 bit.

I would also like to mention that we have made some great improvements to the Create/Alter Buttonpad statement which means you can use these statements for adding basic buttons (Push, Toogle and ToolButtons) to the ribbon interface. In a lot of cases this will help bring MapBasic applications across too. This will be available with the 17.0.1 patch around August.

PS: Back in October last year we did three webinars on porting MapBasic applications to the new ribbon interface. You can find the recordings here: https://li360.pitneybowes.com/s/topic/0TO80000000PwZDGA0/porting-mapbasic-applications-102317

Hello Peter,

Thank you for your reply, I will go ahead and watch the webinars.

We are considering a new webinar or two on this topic so do let us know if there is something specific that you would like to hear more about, @Roger Fraites? 

I would like a bit more information on the new MapBasic commands/functions for 64bit version.