May 27, 2009 -- Based on several months' worth of feedback from its customers, ThinkGeo today announced the availability of a Map Suite Desktop Edition 3.0 Release Candidate. The Release Candidate incorporates a combination of bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features as requested by ThinkGeo's active user base, providing a major enhancement to the company's leading GIS development software for the Windows desktop.

Among the changes in the Desktop Edition 3.0 Release Candidate are the new Events system, continuous panning for WPF, a customizable mouseMode for the map, freehand drawing mode for shapes, tons of new APIs and properties, and much more.

In addition to the Desktop Edition, ThinkGeo has also released updated versions of the other members of its Map Suite 3.0 family of GIS software products. Map Suite Silverlight Edition Beta 2 is now available, incorporating a number of promised enhancements and fixing bugs identified in Beta 1, the most significant of which is a higher-performance replacement for the Microsoft Deep Zoom control. Also refreshed were Map Suite Web and Services Editions, each featuring a host of additions, bug fixes, and API improvements.

For more information on the complete line of ThinkGeo's Map Suite GIS software development products, including free 60-day evaluation downloads and detailed change logs for each of the new releases, visit ThinkGeo's website at http://gis.thinkgeo.com.

ThinkGeo is an industry leader in GIS mapping controls and components. The company offers a wide variety of high-quality products for software developers who are using mapping and geospatial functionality within their applications. They have clients from a wide base of industries ranging from agriculture to aerospace. For more information about ThinkGeo products or professional services, visit http://thinkgeo.com or contact one of our sales representatives at sales@thinkgeo.com or (866)847-7510.