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 ...

Sorry for those of you who expected this post to show up yesterday.  You can find my updated deck here and the gadget which uses ASP.NET AJAX for web service calls + client side data binding here. -Marc

When Dec. 29th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032331002&Culture=en-US  Note: Audio will be via the Internet.  Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract The Virtual Earth Platform is an integrated set of services that combines ...

One of the questions I get asked about like clockwork when I do Virtual Earth programming sessions to government customers is ''How do I get my 'ESRI data' onto the map?''  I always caveat that I don't know much about ESRI products.  I then tell people that Virtual Earth is a platform visualization of data on a map.  It is not tied ...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  I wish I was not so under the weather.  Hopefully it was not too hard to understand me.  I didn't want to cancel the webcast at the last minute.  The deck from my presentation is here.  The majority of the samples I showed are available in the gadgets section at ...

When Feb. 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032325327 Note: Audio will be via the Internet.  Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract Windows Sidebar Gadgets are lightweight programmable objects that provide real-time, ...

I've been talking to a few customers about gadget programming recently.  I've also been doing some gadget programming myself to get ready for my webcast this month on the topic.  One of the first things people ask me about gadget programming, once they understand the fundamentals, is how to make network calls from a gadget.  The ...