Virtual Earth 3D team blog : WPFhttp://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth3d/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspxTags: WPFen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)WPF and VE3Dhttp://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth3d/archive/2009/03/11/wpf-and-ve3d.aspxWed, 11 Mar 2009 22:10:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9470917NikolaiF2http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth3d/comments/9470917.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth3d/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9470917<P>I do love having a developer community out there.&nbsp; We've had lots of requests for direct WPF integration of VE3D, and we've certainly wanted to make it part of the story... and then someone else just goes and does it.&nbsp; <A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2009/03/10/infostrat-releases-a-virtual-earth-control-for-both-wpf-and-surface-to-codeplex.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2009/03/10/infostrat-releases-a-virtual-earth-control-for-both-wpf-and-surface-to-codeplex.aspx">Marc Schweigert</A> called this to me attention yesterday.&nbsp; <A class="" href="http://www.infostrat.com/home" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.infostrat.com/home">Infostrat</A>&nbsp;has taken VE3D and wrapped it up in a WPF control that you can just drop right into your XAML, which is precisely what folks have wanted out of it.</P> <P>But it gets better.&nbsp; Infostrat has also put this project, including the source, onto <A class="" href="http://virtualearthwpf.codeplex.com/" target=_blank mce_href="http://virtualearthwpf.codeplex.com/">CodePlex</A> under LGPL.&nbsp; I've downloaded the source and built myself with no problems.&nbsp; You just need VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1.&nbsp; The central problem and the trickiest part for most folks is how to efficiently get VE3D to composite into the rest of the WPF app, and they've done a good job.&nbsp; For more sugar, they also have a Surface version with multi-touch support.</P> <P>Many thanks to <A class="" href="http://nui.joshland.org/" target=_blank mce_href="http://nui.joshland.org/">Josh Blake</A>, the primary developer on the project, and the Infostrat team.&nbsp; Have fun!</P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9470917" width="1" height="1">VE3DWPF