(PRWEB) August 2, 2006 -- TatukGIS announces the release of the .NET® edition of its GIS Developer Kernel product supporting .NET manageable code for Windows Forms. The Developer Kernel .NET is available as a free trial version download from the TatukGIS web site, along with 45 DK.NET samples in C# and VB.NET code.

The TatukGIS Developer Kernel is a comprehensive GIS software development toolkit (SDK), supporting advanced GIS functionality such as geometric relations, topology, SQL database server map layers, database joining, advanced rendering properties, most GIS/CAD/image/grid data formats, most geographic coordinate systems, and much more. The native .NET edition is the third development platform edition of the TatukGIS Developer Kernel product, after the native VCL edition for Delphi™ and C++Builder™ developers and the ActiveX® edition. The DK-VCL was originally released in 2001 and the DK-ActiveX was originally released in 2002. The VCL and ActiveX editions of the TatukGIS Developer Kernel product are used by GIS solution developers in over fifty countries.

The .NET-native edition is released as a version 8.5 and supports the same object API, features, and properties as the latest available versions of the VCL and ActiveX editions. The DK.NET v. 8.5 is based on .NET framework 1.1, but also compatible with .NET framework 2.0.

The DK.NET product also reflects the same royalty-free licensing model as the DK-VCL and DK-ActiveX. Compiled, desktop applications developed from the Developer Kernel can deployed to final users free of distribution royalties.

The company TatukGIS develops and licenses GIS software products developed from its core GIS technology and intellectual property. For more information about TatukGIS or the GIS Developer Kernel product, please visit the TatukGIS web site at www.tatukgis.com.