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Windows Search 4.0 will begin automatic updates using Windows Update within the next week or so to Windows Vista, but will be an optional update for Windows XP users. The new version will update the indexes, Search will release most of the requested resources
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An extension to .NET Framework 3.5, Code-named Zermatt , helps you more easily build applications that incorporate a claims-based identity model for authentication and authorization. Claims are a set of statements that identify a user and provide specific
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Small Business Assurance program announced at Worldwide Partner Conference provides you and your customers with confidence in moving to Windows Vista. When you and your customers buy a new PC with genuine Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate,
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You can build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications easier across multiple development teams with Composite Application Guidance for WPF . This guidance is intended for software architects and developers who are building enterprise WPF client
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In my last post , I mentioned that I might have some info on how to do client side mapping over Virtual Earth in Silverlight. I’m pleased to inform you that I do indeed, thanks to Adam Eversole and Jared Bienz. Adam had developed a prototype called VIEWS,
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When I'm not doing mapping, I occasionally digress into other application scenarios. Of late, tag clouds have been all the rage, and yet, when recently faced with the challenge of implementing one, I realized that the layout algorithm is non-trivial.
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While the MapPoint Web Service SDK is highly cool and nice and lightweight, I gotten lots of requests about using this technique with Virtual Earth. At first I thought “sure – no problem – I’ll just grab a VisualBrush from the .NET Web Browser control
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In my last post , I mentioned the MapPoint Web Service SDK as one of the options for rendering maps for usage in applications that do client-side plotting. In case you’re not familiar with it, this is a web service with absolutely no client footprint.
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In the previous posts in this series, I showed how to retrieve spatial data from SQL 2008, transform it into pixel coordinates, and to construct a shape from it which could be added to a WPF or SL canvas. Even though you could produce a recognizable
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In my last post , I showed how to process WKT emitted by SQL 2008 spatial types in WPF/SL. The next step in turning our freshly parsed lat+long pairs into System.Windows.Shapes. private static List<System.Windows.Shapes.Polygon> CreateMapPolygons(MyModel
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In my last post , I introduced the SQL 2008 spatial data types and scratched the surface of their features and power. While those types work great within SQL 2008 (either in T-SQL or in SQL CLR methods), I haven’t yet found a way to consume these
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Sorry I've been away from this, but time to get back at it. There have been a number of highly positive developments on this topic in the interim - can't wait to share them with you. In my first post in this series, I motivated why you might want
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I was fortunate enough to have participated in 2 Incubation Weeks at the Microsoft Technology Centers in Boston and Silicon Valley , and would like to personally thank everyone who participated in and supported the events. If you're not familiar with
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Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President at Microsoft, explores the plans for Windows XP, progress with Windows Vista , and the view toward Windows 7 in an open letter to Windows customers. Security and other critical updates continue for Windows XP through
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When we released Windows Vista, security was clearly a top priority. However, one of the implications of the increased focus on security was that compatibility with Windows Vista was not where we wanted it to be at launch. Over the past eighteen months,
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