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Friday, May 16, 2008 12:54 PM

Troubleshooting a failed Virtual Earth 3D installation

The Virtual Earth 3D setup program is a small executable that downloads and installs pre-requisites if they're not already installed and then the correct MSI for your OS flavor (32 or 64 bit). The pre-requisites are Windows Imaging Components and .NET
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Friday, December 07, 2007 10:45 AM

How does Virtual Earth 3D find and load plugins?

On startup VE3D looks in the Plugins folder of the install directory (ProgramFiles\Virtual Earth 3D) and iterates through the assemblies in each subfolder of Plugins. A plugin named Sample would install itself as C:\Program Files\Virtual Earth 3D\Plugins\Sample\Sample.dll.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:10 PM

Using a plugin to add a billboard to Virtual Earth 3D

To add objects to the VE3D world we need to create our own actor that knows how to render itself. Actors descend from Microsoft.MapPoint.Rendering3D.Steps.Actors. Actor and must override the Render method. When it comes time to render a frame, all actors
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:33 AM

Creating a Hello World plugin for Virtual Earth 3D

With latest release of the Virtual Earth 3D release we now support loading plugins to perform additional functionality not implemented in the main product. Two new features of the release are even implemented as plugins (bird's eye photos and user created
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