By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 28 March 2008
 9 presentations, 8 cities and 9 giant tennis balls later, we've concluded our series of SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talks.
There were a few questions that kept occuring around the funding for our "tour". We paid for all the flights, accommodation and transport ourselves (except for the flights to the Melbourne group..which were kindly funded by the usergroup).
Then the next set of questions were around why did we do it if we didn't get paid for it. For us, there were a few opportunities.
- There was the fact we got to see a new new places..like Perth and Adelaide.
- We got to meet lots of people we "talk to" onlink but had never met.
- We got to talk to people ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
 It will be my first MVP summit next month. The summit is at Microsoft Campus in Redmond Seattle. The event sounds pretty cool with presentations and social activities.
So to contribute I teamed up with the event organisers to create an Attendee Map using Virtual Earth.
http://mvp.soulclients.com/
It is very cool to see how international the event is and just how many community focused people will be there.
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Chris Pendleton announced the upcomming release of a Silverlight Virtual Earth Control with Seadragon technology at Mix during his VE presentation.
Check out the presentation, little preview towards the end with integration of other deep zoom images and video.
Also the intellisence project got mention as did my new article on what is new in Virtual Earth  Read More »
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 6 March 2008
After watching all the cool new stuff in IE8 and excited about the JavaScript performance improvements I thought I would I would install it today. After checking out that most sites built for IE7/FF2 combo rendered fine I flicked over to Virtual Earth and pop - javascript error on the VEAPI - "my market is not supported"  .
Interesting the maps.live.com rendered but wasn't really useable - the interactive SDK, the benchmark for all things Virtual Eart ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
We received news today that old versions of Virtual Earth will be retired this year. We had already been told that Version 2 was being switched off come March 31st but the news today is that Versions 3,4 and 5 will end on August 31, 2008.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2942688&SiteID=1
Version 5 will be automatically redirected to Version 6, the current release. Since there are no breaking changes these application will simply be upgraded automatically.
For those running old versions now is the time to start upgrading. Version 6 is stable, offers some great performance features and new functionlaity.
For those looking at coding with Version 6 I highly recommend looking at Visual Stu ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 3 March 2008
If you're after an evaluation developer account so you can use the Virtual Earth and MapPoint APIs, just request a developer account here:
https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup/
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 2 March 2008
The first release is out of the community project on codeplex to give native JavaScript Intellisence to Virtual Earth inside Visual Studio 2008.
http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS
Essentially this is a little bit of documentation code that you reference during development for intellisence only. The actually code is never executed rather it represents all of the functionlaity of the real Virtual Earth Javascript.
The results are awesome, no more misspelt enums or property names, no more firing up the SDK to quickly remember what that property looks like. Productivity is improved.
So whats the deal with the codeplex proje ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 28 February 2008
We've been working away on the new version of the Microsoft Australia Find a Partner site and it has now been released!
So's what's new since the last version? The key features that the end users i.e. YOU see are:
- Upgraded the map to use Virtual Earth version 6
- You can now filter by specialisation aswell as competency
- List of partners on a pin hover now has infinite scroll rather than a next button
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Our presentation at the Gold Coast .Net User group on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth has now been postponed till the 20th March.
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 9 February 2008
For those that don't know I moderate the Virtual Earth forums at MSDN:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=537&SiteID=1
The forum is buzzing with questions and awesome answers from the likes of Ricky, Derek, Brian, Jeff, Roberto, Mike and many others. If you really want to know where the VE dev community is the forums is the place.
So today I came across another post asking about Virtual Earth in a Windows Forms (desktop) applications. My thoughts are, what a great opportunity for MSFT, harness the power of Virtual Earth data and services within rich Windows a ...
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