Mark Brown's Web Platform Blog : Marc Schweigert

Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper 6.2 is Released

mjbrown — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:14:53 GMT

Our Virtual Earth MVP’s rock. Not even a week after we released version 6.2 of the Virtual Earth Map control Chris Pietschmann (update: and Nicolas Boonaert) went and updated the 6.1 version of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper library to support all our new 6.2 features.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this library this little diddy makes the pain of programming in javascript all go away by providing intellisense features for the Virtual Earth Map Control right there in Visual Studio 2008.

Read more about it here at Marc Schweigert’s blog and download it today.

How to Save/View Polygons using Virtual Earth & SQL Spatial

mjbrown — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:27:14 GMT

It’s been a good week for awesome content again here in Virtual Earth land. Marc Schweigert I swear is some kind of Transformer Robot because he cranks out killer demos and samples like a machine is at it again. Here’s a picture of Marc there on the left.

This time he’s got two screen casts for us. The first one shows how to save a polygon drawn in Virtual Earth to SQL Spatial. The second one shows how to render polygons SQL Spatial into Virtual Earth.

Btw, if you’re curious you should go check out his other posts on Virtual Earth. There’s a bunch of great stuff to dig into if you’re looking for some great samples to get you ramped on building applications with Virtual Earth.

One other thing that I have to point out too is a GeoRSS library that Marc used which was originally written by Eugenio Pace who is an Architect here at Microsoft in DPE. They created it as part of the reference application they work they do. In this case, for the Litware HR reference application showing multitenancy on the Microsoft platform. This is out on Code Plex, go check that out too.

Enjoy. I know I’m going to have some fun this weekend playing with this as well as digging into some old toys and playing Transformers too.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Virtual Earth,SQL Spatial

Building Virtual Earth Apps with ASP.NET AJAX

mjbrown — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:41:46 GMT

My good friend and Virtual Earth guru, Marc Schweigert has just published a great two part video on how to build Virtual Earth v6.1 applications using JavaScript. Marc then goes into some details on how to leverage the ASP.NET AJAX and also Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). As a kicker he also shows how to build a VE application as a desktop application.

This is a great video to watch. Marc is an excellent presenter and has deep knowledge on Virtual Earth. If you were at Tech Ed North America this year and picked up a Virtual Earth Developer Resource Kit at my session or at our booth this year you already have this so definitely check it out.

Even better, Marc has posted the deck and the code for this presentation so definitely check it out.

Enjoy.

Virtual Earth SDK in Visual Studio

mjbrown — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:52:58 GMT

I don't know if I have mentioned this before but Marc Schweigert from our Developer and Platform Evangelism team is AWESOME. Yesterday he posted a blog entry about how he took the entire Virtual Earth Interactive SDK and rewrote it as a solution inside Visual Studio and is providing the code for everyone to download.

Check it out.

Technorati Tags: Virtual Earth