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Virtual Earth Programming Deck and Code

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Thanks to everyone who attended the Virtual Earth Public Sector Partner Event or one of my Webcasts this week on Virtual Earth programming.  As promised, here are the download links.  I have broken them up into multiple downloads because it would be a HUGE download otherwise.

VeProgramming.zip - Full deck.  The deck has more content than what I showed during the presentation.  The focus of the presentation was demos.

VEMapControlDemo.zip - This is my implementation of the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK (v4).  However, I introduce using ASP.NET AJAX to make AJAX programming with the Virtual Earth Map Control (v4) easier.  NOTE: This code does not use the map control that shipped with earlier releases of ASP.NET "Atlas."   The code uses the standard Virtual Earth Map Control (v4).  You will need to download and install ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2 to get the code to compile.  The code also uses the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures November CTP.  However, the assembly is already in the bin directory.

VirtualEarthAjaxControlToolkitControl.zip - This is the "proof of concept" extender control I built using the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.  The control is based on the hard work of Chris Pietschmann.  Chris built a really cool control (ASP.NET Virtual Earth Map Control) that wraps a bunch of Virtual Earth Map Control (v4) functionality into an ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control.  The beauty of the control Chris wrote is that you don't have to write a single line of JavaScript!  DISCLAIMER: This control was written as a "proof of concept" for my demos. It is "AS-IS" and not without bugs;).   Chris is working on a full ASP.NET AJAX enhanced version of his control based on the prototype.  I'll write a bit more about this in a separate post! 

WinformsEarthV4.zip - Example of how to host Virtual Earth in a .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Forms (desktop) application. This sample uses the WebBrowser control to host an html page which uses the Virtual Earth v4 JavaScript Control. It uses a feature of the WebBrowser control which allows you to call JavaScript in the hosted page from managed and managed code in the host application from JavaScript. The code is based on the "Winforms Earth v2" sample at https://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/Winforms2.ashx. I updated the code to use the v4 control which introduces new features like Virtual Earth 3D.

-Marc

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  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
    Thanks to everyone who attended the Virtual Earth Public Sector Partner Event or one of my Webcasts this

  • Anonymous
    December 07, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2006
    Thanks for your example they have helpted, especialy the push pin ones. However iv tried them in Firefox and nothing works. Do you know what the cause of this could be?

  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2006
    Thanks Marc. I was first introduced to VE and ajax through your videos on Channel 9. Its a pity your virtual machine BSOD'd and the recording finished early before we saw more ajax stuff. So are we right to assume the virtual earth control from atlas has been dropped? I guess i better eat my words after telling Chris not to bother with his server control as MS AJAX will have a non-postback solution lol. I hope you guys get something up. John.

  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2006
    The links are no longer working it seems , the website federaldeveloper can no longer be reached as well.

  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2006
    don't understand the reason butin IE it shows that, the site does not exist, but am able to download using opera

  • Anonymous
    January 09, 2007
    Thanks to everyone who attended! My previous post here has all the information about downloads, etc.

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2007
    I was inspired by WPF/E and "Layering" Content and Using Opacity with a WPFE / Virtual Earth Mashup to

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2007
    A while back, I blogged about using WPF/E & Virtual Earth together. The post is here . I've also

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2007
    Couldnot able to download .Zip files containing the sample code!!!!

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2007
    I'm trying to find out how to load my data from MSSQL (with lat/long info) into the VE map.  Have been struggle for sometime now.  Please help

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2007
    Mug, You will need to wrap your data access code with a web service and then call the web service from JavaScript and use the results from the web service to programmatically add using VEMap.  If you download my sample code, you will see an example.  The video at http://www.asp.net/learn/ajax-videos/video-82.aspx shows you how to make a web service callable from JavaScript. -Marc

  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2007
    I have a silly question:  I want Intellisense with the VE javascript.  Is this possible, and if so how?  I'd like to be able to see map.intellisenceoptions and such?  Am I missing a reference some where? Thanks Casey

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Any chance you update this to VE version 6 ? I need the new features like multipoint routing and shapes, etc. I will try to make the update on my own based upon your code. ...just wanted to ask first if somebody has done it already.

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2009
    I am not able to download the zip file, WinformsEarthV4.zip.  Can you check? Thank you so much.