[GIS] List of useful Add-Ins for ArcGIS Desktop

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What are the best Add-Ins for ArcCatalog and ArcMap v10?

XRay for ArcGIS 10 is very useful, what else is out there?

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It might be poor form to post my own AddIns, but I'm doing it anyway(they are free and I don't post these in ESRI galleries).

I wrote an AddIn with a single button(command) that fires up the browser to google streetview at the same extent as the ArcMap extent(avi movie). This is the one that my users ask for the most: GoogleStreetView.esriAddIn

Select stacked features: SelectStackedFeatures.esriAddIn. A button that make a feature selection of any stacked features of a highlighted feature layer. Sorry, no avi movie for this one.

I also have an AddIn that does automatic timestamping and attribution. From my ideas.arcgis.com comment on timestamping:

I wrote an AddIn that does a lot of this (right around the same time as Infrastructure Editing Template for ArcGIS 10 was released) , but I haven't gotten around to writing any documentation for it.

There is a toggle button, so you can disable it.

It's configurable with an XML file ( global or a featureclass specific replacement value template).

Built in:
{MachineName}
{UserName}
{DomainName}
{NOW}
{WKB} (Well-known binary)
{GEOHASH} (geohash point features only).
{e:any-environment-variable}

On the TODO list:
{WKT}
{XCOORD}
{YCOORD}
{ZCOORD}

Download Location: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1156285/EditorTrack.esriAddIn

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As far as I can tell you are implementing the error handling that ESRI is currently putting out there as best practice. If you were to grab a hold of the application's (ArcMap) unhandled exceptions you could potentially be then displaying messages about errors that were not part of your AddIn. Most of the AddIns you write are probably going to be buttons and those really only have two major routes that unexpected errors would be caught and displayed (onClick and onUpdate).

Just remember to use the 'throw' instead of 'throw ex'. There is a minute difference, but it results in retaining the error's lineage as it bubbles up from called functions.

[GIS] Finding path where add-ins are installed for ArcGIS Desktop

Here is the C# code to get the addin assembly folder:

public static string AssemblyDirectory
        {
            get
            {
                string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
                UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
                string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
                return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
            }
        }

and VB.NET:

Public Shared ReadOnly Property AssemblyDirectory() As String
    Get
        Dim codeBase As String = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase
        Dim uri__1 As New UriBuilder(codeBase)
        Dim path__2 As String = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri__1.Path)
        Return Path.GetDirectoryName(path__2)
    End Get
End Property

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