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If your interested in developing with the next generation visualisations of Silverlight on top of the Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) you can now download the Version 1 release of DeepEarth.

http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth/

Visit our online sample site or watch the video:

I was having trouble working out why in WPF when setting a ListBox SelectedIndex in code wasn’t showing my item up as selected. Turns out I had code set on Selector.IsSelectionActive.

While in Melbourne for Artists in Residence I had time to play with their Surface computer. The killer feature for me isn’t multi-touch but rather multi-user. And what better environment then a coffee table for that?

Now to find a suitable project...

On the 13th June this year we officially kicked off the DeepEarth project at Codeplex. Since then, with some great contributions from team members, the project has evolved into a very compelling control and has already had great interest around the globe.
I’m pleased to announce we are very close to a Christmas holiday release, the 17th December is the day for our V1 release.

Bug hunt competition details follow:

Last week we participated in Australia’s first Artist in Residence training at Microsoft Melbourne. Over a busy 5 days designer and developer pairs undertook a mixture of hands on labs with formal training skilling us up to build our own mini project under the guidance of Shane Morris, Michael Kordahi and Jordan Knight. On the final day we presented 7 Silverlight applications.

I have been working on a WPF project lately and finding I have both Blend and Visual Studio open a lot of the time.  There's things each tool does better than the other and then there's things I need to use both for to accomplish my task. Thought I'd put down my thoughts and see if anyone else has the same issues.

First for the things I’m liking:

In WPF in general, I'm loving the data binding. All I can say is very, very cool.

Now for the things that annoy me:

My latest Article is up on sql-server-performance. It comes from watching one of the cool videos on TED where the presenter remodelled the World’s landmass based on the number of minutes US news spent on stories from that country – it was quite dramatic.

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We went and visited the guys at QUT last week as they had some cool stuff to show us and we love seeing cool things. One of the projects they have been working on is called SilverGene which is:

“SilverGene is a novel genomic visualiser hosted within most standard web browsers and written using the Microsoft Silverlight presentation technology. It delivers highly interactive exploration at arbitrary scales, the ability to work interchangeably with local or remotely accessed data, and developing support for publication and collaboration.”

This month we're going to mix it up a bit and have a "Coffee and Chic Flick" night.  We'll meet at the Cafe next to the Southbank Cinemas for a coffee and chat and follow it up with a movie.

Thanks to Lisa for suggesting Australia - AUSTRALIA is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (NICOLE KIDMAN) travels to the faraway continent where she meets a rough-hewn local (HUGH JACKMAN) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited.

Register for the event here: http://girlgeekdinnersbrisbane03.eventbrite.com/

One of my favourite tools to help me with WPF at the moment is Snoop (http://blois.us/Snoop/). It's really handy to do some visual debugging of WPF at runtime. It allows you to explore the visual tree of you application, and all it's associated properties.