Check out the announcement at dev.live.com : The Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (CTP) allows you to easy drag and drop online services into your web site without worrying about any of the underlying goo.

In this refresh we’ve fixed lots of bugs and added the Virtual Earth Map Control – you can now get the great interactivity of VE, with the power, and ease of use of ASP.NET with no JavaScript.

Download here and we’d love your feedback

The Virtual Earth Control

In the toolbox you get a lot of new controls and extenders

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When you drag this onto the canvas there is a rich design surface, you can manipulate the control via properties pane or add extenders etc.

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The map server control is added to the page

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You can manipulate the control in the code behind

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We can import KML

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The controls also support client extenders, from the smart tag you can add an extender

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Watch the screencast here which I recorded with Mark Brown


Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control - CTP Release