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 ...

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 ...

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 ...