At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control.  The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many.  I know many people are eagerly awaiting the Silverlight 2 control from the Virtual Earth team.  ...

One of the biggest challenges I feel that we (Microsoft) face in showcasing the ''value'' of architecting/developing Office Business Applications is providing what I'll call ''solid reference implementations'' along the lines of Duwamish Books, Fitch and Mather, Global Bank, LitwareHR, other many other solutions we've released.  Sure, we have ...

You may recall in a previous post, I wrote about how I led a couple of projects to migrate Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 as well as implement a Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently hosted on Conservation International's newly re-launched ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  All of my latest VE content is available here.  Direct links: Deck VE Map Control (v5) / ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2)  WPF Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2) ClickOnce Deployed WPF Demo (requires that the .NET Framework 3.0 be installed on the desktop before ...

As mentioned in my last post, in addition to the website redesign and replatform to MOSS, I also oversaw a project that involved taking one of the customer's primary ''eye candy'' applications, an HTML/JavaScript-based carbon calculator, and ported it to Microsoft Silverlight v1.1 Alpha.  We solicited the services of a couple of talented ...

 In the spirit of talking about the cool projects I've been working on as mentioned in a previous post I want to bring your attention to two new MOSS-powered websites that just launched, right at the eve of this year's Live Earth event (that's currently happening as I write this).  The customer's name is Conservation ...

Rob from the Public Sector Virtual Earth team just sent me an email pointing to a game called ''Destroy All Invaders'' where you fly around in a helicopter shooting down flying saucers that have invaded the earth.  The game was created by Andy Beaulieu.  He uses Virtual Earth as the backdrop for the game and ...

On behalf of James, Joel, and myself, I would like to thank everyone who attended the Public Sector Developer Conference in New York City.  Here are the downloads: Implement the Process: Real World SDLC Using Visual Studio Team System - deck Building Office Business Applications with Visual Studio Tools for Office - deck Introduction to ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here's the deck.  You can get to my demo code from here and my Virtual Earth code from here.

I've received quite a few requests to update my Virtual Earth + Silverlight and WPF + Virtual Earth + Silverlight samples.  Both codebases are old code.  Therefore, they no longer work against the current releases of Silverlight (1.0 Beta or 1.1 Alpha) and Virtual Earth (v5).  I'm part of the way there towards getting the ...