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After a long wait and no news the very cool Photosynth was released today for you to build your own synth. There is a great (40min) video on channel 10.

Here is some interesting links I found so far:

The HDView team at Microsoft have just released an update to their tools that allows you to export your giga-pixel images as a Silverlight Deep Zoom application directly from Photoshop CS3.

The tools can be downloaded from here:

We decided to be different and go to Tech Ed New Zealand this year.  We’re doing a couple of presentations at Tech.Ed NZ if you want to check them out.

WEB217 – The Live Highlights Package – 3/9/2008 – 1:40-2:10pm

GEN101 – Virtually There – Girl Geek Dinner – 1/9/2008 8:00-10:00pm

Abstracts are below:

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.

I was alerted on twitter today that a giant screen is being erected in the city, the guess is to feed us sport crazy Australian’s with some Olympic goodness. Anyway I thought, ha I don’t need no big screen, I know that MSNBC is doing something special this year. They are giving you the ability to control your own Olympic viewing experience using the power of Silverlight at http://www.nbcolympics.com

But then today disaster, I hit this screen on their control:

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

This marks our 500th blog post since 6th August 2006! So to mark our 500th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures for our last 100 blog post days!

We’ve seen a lot more interest in Silverlight Streaming and Silverlight with Virtual Earth.

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.

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.

If you want to export some data into excel in ASP.Net without having Excel on your server a good way to do it is it use a GridView and ADO.Net to do this. There are a few little tricks/snags you can quickly hit, so I’m going to show a few I’ve found.

The basic code renders the content of the GridView to the response object with a content type of Excel:

Response.ClearContent()
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline;filename=book1.xls")
Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel"

Dim sw As New StringWriter()
Dim htw As New HtmlTextWriter(sw)
GridView1.RenderControl(htw)
Response.Write(sw.ToString())
Response.End()