Virtual Earth 3D team blog

Hello all, When we announced that we're "discontinuing investment" in VE3D earlier this year, many...

Date: 08/13/2011

Hello all, We have just announced that we will be discontinuing investment in VE3D. In the short...

Date: 11/03/2010

With the 3.6 release Firefox changed the plugin API which broke Virtual Earth 3D temporarily. To...

Date: 03/29/2010

It is possible (and pretty easy) to add your own weather data (based on your own data sources, or...

Date: 01/24/2010

Goodness for the new year: Have you seen the Microsoft Surface Globe application in the Microsoft...

Date: 01/05/2010

Posting some answers to questions I've gotten recently. Bug in the samples: Kind of silly that I...

Date: 12/08/2009

In some scenarios it may be desirable to install the VE3D engine without visiting the...

Date: 09/27/2009

Sorry for the glut of posts this week. I hadn't been able to write much, but there were still...

Date: 09/24/2009

I've gotten a few questions lately about how to do some alpha effects using models, specifically...

Date: 09/22/2009

I was asked the other day about how to load multiple x file -based models into VE3D without having...

Date: 09/20/2009

Just got a good question: what if I want to prevent the camera from moving outside certain bounds,...

Date: 08/07/2009

I just fielded a few good questions via email about actor data sources, and thought it would make a...

Date: 07/26/2009

As you may be aware, the website changed names to Bing Maps: https://www.bing.com/maps/. The 3D view...

Date: 06/14/2009

You may recall that I posted about a data format change for the new version. The final switch-over...

Date: 06/09/2009

I was having a discussion with Kurt Guenther from Infusion yesterday on the topic of WMS servers and...

Date: 06/09/2009

My, it has been a long time since I posted. I promise I will try to be better. Recently I was asked...

Date: 06/09/2009

Folks have really reacted to my mention of manual rendering, so I've made a sample for it. Good...

Date: 04/19/2009

Anisotropic has been a bit of a frustration for us because while it is very easy to do (it's really...

Date: 04/19/2009

Our new version has gone live. Head on over to maps.live.com and click "3D" to upgrade. This release...

Date: 04/09/2009

As part of our version update, we are also updating the file format of our 3D buildings. The upside...

Date: 04/06/2009

At times it can be useful to know when and if errors are occurring in VE3D. When instructed, VE3D...

Date: 04/05/2009

Next week we'll be releasing a new version of the control. The focus of the release is on perf and...

Date: 04/01/2009

I do love having a developer community out there. We've had lots of requests for direct WPF...

Date: 03/11/2009

Ever since I got a Touchsmart at home I've been very interested in the desktop touch experience, and...

Date: 03/04/2009

Hello all, I've had a few emails regarding our files being down this weekend. Sorry I didn't give a...

Date: 03/01/2009

When the control first starts, there are several stages that need to complete before it is really...

Date: 02/21/2009

Siddharth Jain, one of the devs on our team, wrote a tool using VE3D to place photos in 3D and save...

Date: 02/11/2009

Due to the outstanding efforts of our team's tech writer, we've produced some lovely help...

Date: 01/25/2009

Just a couple camera nuggets to drop today. The code snippets below were all written inside...

Date: 01/14/2009

I haven't posted in quite awhile, as development on the next version has been pretty intense....

Date: 01/11/2009

We've had several questions about how to do a pop-up form in WinForms, similar to the one on the...

Date: 11/24/2008

Parallels, which is a program that allows running Windows software on a Mac, has recently released...

Date: 11/23/2008

In addition to using dynamic buffers to animate geometry, you can also animate the textures on...

Date: 11/18/2008

There are a few settings in VE3D that you can use for debugging that are turned off by default, but...

Date: 10/29/2008

In this sample, we create a DataSource, which is a class that can be used for large-scale data sets....

Date: 10/27/2008

In this sample, we create a plug-in to move the camera to a random location in the world every time...

Date: 10/22/2008

There are four ways to add custom imagery to VE3D. The first three involve using built-in classes,...

Date: 10/12/2008

Today we show a little of the "Time" sample. It demonstrates how to use the concepts of rendering...

Date: 10/05/2008

Here's the newest, most whiz-bang sample set we've got right at the moment. Download The Samples!...

Date: 09/25/2008

You may have noticed that we have not blogged recently, and that’s because we’ve been hard at work...

Date: 09/25/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....

Date: 07/08/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....

Date: 07/08/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....

Date: 05/27/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....

Date: 05/01/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here. The...

Date: 04/19/2008

The first thing that most people want to do when playing with the 3D control is add some stuff to...

Date: 04/18/2008

Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....

Date: 04/11/2008