I've been chatting with Vish over email.  He made me aware his approach to getting SQL 2008 & Virtual Earth to play well together using GeoJSON.  I actually didn't know about GeoJSON.  Thanks Vish!  Check out his post explaining the ...

First, let me apologize since I promised to make this recording available almost two months ago.  I was trying to get the recording uploaded to the same Live Meeting servers as my other webcasts.  Needless to say, I had some challenges.  I decided to upload it to Silverlight Streaming.  I had to split the presentation into two ...

As promised, here is the screencast for my previous post: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/keydet/Using-Virtual-Earth-in-a-WPF-Application/ -Marc

I've been pretty quite on the blogging front lately.  Every once in a while, I get the opportunity to work on something a little meatier than writing demo code.  Almost all of my time over the last month or so has been spent working on a couple such opportunities.  During this time, I worked on a more creative/reusable approach to ...

I’ve update my primary Virtual Earth (VE) map control demos. If you aren’t familiar with my VE demos, they are essentially all the samples from the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK redone in a Visual Studio solution. My directory structure maps almost identically to the steps treeview in the Interactive SDK:   Then, I sprinkle in ...

During my Virtual Earth Workshop at the GIS-T (www.gis-t.org) conference, I demo'd how to execute a spatial query in a VE scenario by using JavaScript, WCF, and SQL Server 2008.  The query returned GeoRSS to the browser so the VE map control could use it to draw polygons on the map.  I ingested the spatial data into SQL from ESRI shape ...

Thanks to everyone who attended my 4 HOUR Virtual Earth workshop at the GIS-T conference.  The files I promised are available below: Slide deck Main Demos Hosting Virtual Earth in WPF demo All my demos require Visual Studio 2008 because I use features of the .NET Framework 3.5 in places.  I still need to clean/package up my Virtual ...

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 ...

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 ...