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Good Evening, I sit down to write this blog article on the plane on my way to LA in preparation for tomorrow’s presentation at PDC on the same subject. In my last article I described the ability to leverage the hard work that the SQL Server team put into building a spatial library for your own .NET...

I will be presenting at PDC next week with Ed Katibah and Torsten Grabs on uses of the SQL Server Spatial library (SQLTypes). The session will be on Tuesday at 12:30pm. Title: Building Location Aware Applications with the SQL Server Spatial Library Abstract: Did you know that the new SQL...

In my previous blog post I discussed the ability to leverage the SQL Server type library in your own .NET applications. The article showed how to create a simple console application that calculates some areas for different shapes and how to create these shapes either from a text representation like WKT...

In SQL Server 2008 we introduced the ability to store spatial objects as columns within a database through the Geometry and Geography types as well as the ability to perform efficient query operations against those columns through the use of a new Spatial index. These data types were implemented as...