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VEToolkit: A must have for all Virtual Earth Developers!
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Posted 27 January 09 06:19 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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RELEASED: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper for 6.2
Thanks to the quick effort from Chris Pietschmann , I am happy to announce that we have an updated version of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper that is in sync with the update Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2.  You can learn more about Read More...
Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Samples
John O'Brien , a Windows Live Developer MVP, has been cranking out samples of how to use the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control .  He's also blogging over at www.liveside.net now.  His latest post is titled Server Side Clustering and comes complete Read More...
Posted 18 August 08 03:44 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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Building Virtual Earth applications just keeps getting easier
I've given a number of presentations on Virtual Earth development over the last couple years.  The first thing ASP.NET WebForms developers say to me is how bummed they are that they have to write JavaScript.  That's understandable.  ASP.NET Read More...
Posted 29 July 08 01:44 by marcsc | 4 Comments   
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SCREENCAST: Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth
In this screencast, I build off of the concepts shown in my previous screencast and show you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server Read More...
SCREENCAST: Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008
In this screencast, I show you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Saving-Virtual-Earth-Polygons-to-SQL-Server-2008/ Read More...
WEBCAST RECORDING: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX
First, let me apologize since I promised to make this recording available almost two months ago.  I was trying to get the recording uploaded to the same Live Meeting servers as my other webcasts.  Needless to say, I had some challenges.  Read More...
UPDATED WORKAROUND: Intellisense for page level map variables using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
UPDATE: AH FOOEY!  I feel like a goof:).  Turns out my workaround DOESN'T WORK!!!  If you look at the logic from the original post, it makes sense that it wouldn't work because “var map = new VEMap();” is before “var map Read More...
Updated Virtual Earth Map Control demo code
UPDATE: I've updated the code to use the workaround described here .  If you downloaded this code before May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:30 PM EST, then you might download it again.  The URL is the same. I’ve update my primary Virtual Earth (VE) map Read More...
NEW RELEASE: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper
I am happy to announce that we have a new release of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper to bring Intellisense in sync with the new Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1 .  In addition to 6.1 compatibility, we also made the following enhancements: Read More...
VE JavaScript Intellisense Helper bug & workaround
A bug has been discovered when using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper where JavaScript Intellisense fails to surface in a very common scenario.  The scenario is when you have declared a page level map variable.  You will get Read More...
Improving the performance of drawing large vector datasets on the Virtual Earth map.
One of the topics that comes up often when I give Virtual Earth programming talks is that there is a point where performance degrades when adding shapes (pushpins, polylines, polygons) to the map.  When depends on the complexity of the shapes you Read More...
Posted 01 April 08 06:07 by marcsc | 0 Comments   
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UPDATE: New Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper release
One of our team members found a bug.  We fixed it and created a new release today.  Bug details and release download are available at http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12065 . We are ramping up for our next Read More...

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