Here are links for Windows Live Tools over last 3 week. Excerpts from few blogs are noted below.
Andrej Tozon [August 4, 2008]:
”… Working with the control appears to be easy. It took me about 15 minutes [including Tools’ download+setup] to port the previous version to use this new control. No RTFM, just drag and drop, set properties and copy/modify some relevant code. …”
Ars Technica [July 28, 2008]:
”… Windows Live Tools is a set of control add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 that make incorporating Windows Live services into websites much easier….”
LiveSide.Net [July 28, 2008]:
”..the main attraction is the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control. It is a .Net 3.5 control designed for Visual Studio 2008 and does require a script manager (ASP.NET AJAX) to be added to the page to begin. The control is a complete drag and drop experience, drag the map from your toolbox onto your design surface and resize to suit. As you would expect all V6 properties can be set as properties of the control, there is a full set of client side events to map to any JavaScript you require and a set of server events for server suitable events, like mouse ‘onclick’ but not ‘onmouseover’. (the later would fire too many events to be handled server side) …
The real power of the control is for server centric operations, getting data from your database and displaying on the map is now trivial, no GeoRSS, no AJAX web services, no JavaScript. The control itself using AJAX to communicate to the server and causes no full post backs itself. However because the control maintains full state even if your page posts back, the current map view and its data will survive. A complex feature to implement on your own Virtual Earth applications is now built in. …”
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