April, 2008

| |

<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

Integrating Virtual Earth with the SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data Types

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 1 Comments
Some links which might be interesting ;-)
Cheers!

Daniel
<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

Some Virtual Earth Resources…

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 2 Comments
Just some random Virtual Earth resources as I sometimes get asked for.

DevCenter and SDK
Blogs
Forum
- Virtual Earth: Map Control Development
Tools
- Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
  The purpose of this project is to fully enable JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control inside of Visual Studio 2008.
- Virtual Earth – MapCruncher
  MapCruncher™ beta for Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ is a newly-released, innovative tool that allows anyone to import maps, layer them, and share them on a website using the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform.
- Virtual Earth – 3DVIA
  Imagine, create and share 3D models within Microsoft Virtual Earth!
Enjoy and participate if you know other resources!

Daniel
<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

New Release of "Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper" available for download

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 1 Comments
Marc Schweigert just announced a new version of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper. You can find the details on his blog.

Get it now!

Daniel
<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit ready to download

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 2 Comments
The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six hands-on labs, made up of the following technologies:
1. ADO.NET Data Services
2. ADO.NET Entity Framework
3. ASP.NET AJAX History
4. ASP.NET Dynamic Data
5. ASP.NET MVC
6. ASP.NET Silverlight controls
Additional information can be found here.

Cheers

Daniel

<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

New features for www.whereisdaniel.net

Posted over 4 years ago

Daniel_Walzenbach

1 Comments

Well, it took me a while but I finally implemented some neat features for www.whereisdaniel.net :-) (@ least in my opinion). I intended www.whereisdaniel.net to be more flexible and ended up implementing query parameters to adjust the appearance of the page. At present the following query parameters are supported:

DateFrom, DateTo
Using these parameter one can control the time-span to be shown. DateFrom and DateTo have to be in the format yyyyMMddHHmmss (I need to implement time zone as well…).
MapStyle
Sets the style of the map using the VEMapStyle Enumeration.
ShowLastPosition
Controls wether the last position should be shown as well or not. This feature comes in handy if one wants to display a time span somewhere else than the current position.
RouteDrawingMode
RouteDrawingMode can be either Dots or Line and controls if the route should be drawn as an animated route of dots (including time and speed) or a polygon.

Using the above mentioned params allowed me to set up a neat compilation :-)

Circling over Rostock because of ground fog.	Flight from Seattle to Munich with transit in Copenhagen.
Skiing in Whistler. Truly amazing and since I already was in Seattle a chance I couldn’t possibly miss ;-)	A lifelong dream coming true :-) Heliskiing (or heliboarding to be more precise) in Whistler! Beyond rational thought!!!
Vacation in Italy visiting Como, Milan, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Lucca, Florence, Siena and San Gimignano. Unfortunately this was only a one week long trip and we were rushing through Italy ;-) This collections contains some nice pictures as well.

Still on my mind is to open www.whereisdaniel.net to everybody. Let me know if you’d like that.

Cheers!

Daniel

<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

Will Virtual Earth 3D be the next first-person shooter?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 1 Comments
Woooah!! This is freaking sweet! Check out the latest version of the Virtual Earth API we released today. It seems, Virtual Earth is going to be the next first-person shooter ;-) The trees in the picture below are real 3D models. Unfortunately we screwed up again! They don’t move in the wind ;-)

Besides the 3D trees there are tons of new features like Tailored 3D Tours, New Walking Directions, IE8 and Safari Support, Labels for Birds Eye imagery and much more which can be found on either the VE platform blog on MSDN or Steve Lombardi’s LSM Blog on Spaces.

Enjoy the goodness :-)

Daniel
<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

How to get the Base Directory of an application?

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 1 Comments
Well, to be honest that’s actually quite easy, nevertheless I keep forgetting it all the time (pretty much like Error 15023: User already exists in current database). Seems like I enter an age where my short term memory is already gone but the long term memory hasn’t arrived yet ;-)

So, without further frills, that’s how it works:

Dim myFile = String.Format("{0}\myFile.xml", _
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory)

Happy coding!

Daniel
<dw:daniel_walzenbach runat="server" />

Kostenlose Roadshow für Webentwickler

Posted over 4 years ago

by Daniel_Walzenbach
- 1 Comments
Webentwickler aufgepasst! Am 28.04 startet die Microsoft Web Partner Roadshow 2008 in München und gastiert im Anschluss in Stuttgart (29.04.2008), Frankfurt (05.05.2008), Düsseldorf (06.05.2008), Hamburg (07.05.2008) und Berlin (08.05.2008).

Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es einen Überblick über die derzeit aktuellen Softwaretechnologien im Bereich Webentwicklung zu geben und diese im Kontext eines Lösungsszenarios zu skizzieren.

Am besten gleich anmelden da die Plätze begrenzt sind. Weitere Informationen finden sich auf www.web-roadshow.de.

Daniel