By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 13 October 2008
 So you’re interested in Silverlight and Virtual Earth, you’ve downloaded the DeepEarth code but are now completely lost? Well check out two 20min videos to walk you through the code and get you started. Part1 and Part2.
The videos essentially walk you through the solutions, pointing out what each of the projects does, the structure and how to get the right project running. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 9 October 2008
The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and within a few moments of interacting with the map you can easy exceed this with the rich imagery being loaded on demand. But what if your web page only needs to show the Virtual Earth map when a user asks for it or you just want your page to load super fast? You need to load Virtual Earth on demand. 
See an example here: http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/examples/VE62/loadondemand.htm (view source for full code)
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
The Virtual Earth JavaScript control has supported tile overlays for some time. A tile layer is set of 256px square images matching the Mercator projection of Virtual Earth. Tile layers are usually layered on top of Virtual Earth, the control supports transparency and an opacity of the entire layer. With the latest release of Version 6.2 of the control you can now disable the base tile layers allowing for greater performance when your tiles are all you need. Lets look at what is required to load OpenStreetMap tiles into Virtual Earth. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.  Video after the break:
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 19 September 2008
  On the 22nd August John and I participated in Technology Take You Anywhere 2008, an event to help encourage school girls into Technology careers. We were placed in the Multimedia space up against the dance mats, game bikes etc. We devised a bit of a game where we’d show the girls an image of a famous landmark and they had to find it using Virtual Earth, an XBox controller and help from their school mates.
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 10 August 2008
My second set of videos for the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control went up today. This time we look at server side clustering. If your interested in getting a really large amount of data in the control you should check it out over at liveside.net. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 3 August 2008
Released on Monday the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth control is very cool. I’ve spent the weekend sharing some of my knowledge of the control. Get the full set of 8 videos from LiveSide: http://tinyurl.com/veasp The sample site is fully downloadable and shows the final outcome from the videos: http://veasp.soulsolutions.com.au
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 2 August 2008
We’re going to the extreme! We’ve signed up to do 12 interactive presentations in one day about Virtual Earth at this year’s Technology Takes You Anywhere event, held on August 22nd in Brisbane. 
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Yesterday we were fortunate enough to participate in the Brisbane Virtual Earth day as one of the customer case studies. As you can see below, there was a really good turnout in the Brisbane office. 
The day included an introduction and overview from Peter, 2 customer case studies, an excellent masterclass by Johannes and discussion on licensing from Jen.
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 17 July 2008
This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration.
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