Yale,
I had be tolded that maybe the next verion of Map Suite Desktop Edition will be realesed in follwing week.
there is some suggestion to improve Map Suite Desktop Edition:
1) I found the the current version of Map Suite Desktop Edition can't reproject and rotate the raster layer,I hope the next version can consider to add the two functions to the RasterLayer.I think the application of the satellite image is more and more.but the RasterLayer can't reproject and rotate, It is very regretful.
2) When I use the Wpf version of Map Suite Desktop Edition,I found that the size of Wpf Map Suite Desktop Edition can't to fill the window form. you have to set the Width and Height to a certain value, this make the size of Wpf Map Suite Desktop can't change with the Form. if you set the Width and Height to Auto,then you can see the map at all. But others window control like TextBox,if you set the Width and Height to Auto,then the TextBox will fill the window form. this is very like the "Dock" be seted into "Fill" in windows form. But the Wpf version of Map Suite Desktop Edition can't do this.On this ,it makes the users very dissatisfied. So I hope the next version can consider to resolve the problem.
3) I want to tilecache to improve the performance of my application,I pre-generate all tiles that the sacles I need. then I want to display my map use the TileCache . I found that it is impossible because of the double type scale. please reference the follwoing uri: gis.thinkgeo.com/Support/Dis...fault.aspx. I hope you can resolve the probelm as soon as possible,it is very help fiull to improve the performance .
4)I found that when I hide a layer,the files of tilecache directory will be cleaned,I found this is not very reasonable. Why need to clean the files.,you can not read the files of tilecache directory,no need to delete the files .
I hope my suggestion will be helpfull to you !