Amongst a variety of conferences including the ESP Developer Conference Tech-Ed 2008 Developer and other industry specific ones over the last month, our team has been showing the ESP platform in many locations.  A lot has been happening and as the developer forum shows, a lot of great questions are being asked. In looking at the questions directly from partners, either on the forum or at conferences, we are creating code samples, videos and how-to's to help address the commons queries.

The Learn page on the Microsoft ESP developer center has a new video named "Building High Detail Scenery in Microsoft ESP". We have an additional one covering importing aerial imagery into ESP that will be uploaded to the site soon.

As for code samples, a new one called DLLSimConnectClient is available on the MSDN code gallery. This shows you how to build a C++ based add-on DLL that runs in-process in the ESP environment. It uses SimConnect to add a menu item, dialog box and enables the user to see you you would go about setting some of the environment variables in ESP through code. It will get onto the Download page of the Developer center shortly. This dll sample will be of particular interest to those developers who have shown interest in using the ESP platform for the 'visuals only' or 'out the window view' since an in-process dll will show better performance than an external (out of process) SimConnect client.

Thanks. Todd Landstad.