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Updated! - Service Notice: New Map Control - November 6, 2006
Please be advised that we will release a new version of the Virtual Earth Map Control on Monday,...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/31/2006
SLAMming with Virtual Earth
What happens when you mix mobile, social and maps? You get Microsoft Research's new SLAM...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 10/10/2006
More details on new features in v3.1
Ortho Tile Sets and MapCruncher One of the new features that we shipped in the v3.1 release of the...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/14/2006
MyFox Tropical Weather
It has been a pretty slow tropical storm season in the gulf this year, but that doesn't make any of...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/14/2006
Map Control 3.1 Launched
Last night, the most recent version of Live Local launched. Improvements include the ability to draw...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 09/12/2006
Windows Live Contacts control
Danny Thorpe, from the Windows Live Contacts team, has a good blog post about the new JScript...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/21/2006
Windows Live Writer, complete with VE integration
The maps and imagery from Microsoft Virtual Earth aren't just good for marketing, business...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/13/2006
Earthly Delights: Chandu Thota's Latest
Chandu, Virtual Earth developer and author of Programming MapPoint in .NET, has an article coming...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/10/2006
Virtual Earth Case Studies
For anyone who wants to know more about the benefits of integrating Microsoft Virtual Earth into...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/10/2006
Customer Satisfaction Survey
Attention developers currently using or evaluating Virtual Earth Map Control or MapPoint Web...
Author: Chris Pendleton Date: 08/10/2006
MindManager and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Michael Scherotter over at MindJet just posted a great description of how he integrated Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/31/2006
Grubb & Ellis Selects VE
This might sound lately like it is becoming a real estate blog, but I just got wind of this press...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2006
Microsoft Dev Day @ Inman Real Estate Connect
Next week, at the Inman Real Estate Connect conference, where you will find Microsoft's Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/20/2006
Coldwell Banker Bain – Solution Highlight
Another residential real estate broker has launched a new VE powered site. Coldwell Banker Bain, a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/22/2006
MSR MapCruncher Released
Microsoft Research has been working with Virtual Earth to develop a cool new application for...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/16/2006
Virtual Earth and the NGA
Microsoft and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency recently announced a partnership to build...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/11/2006
John L. Scott Real Estate and Virtual Earth - Solution Highlight
John L. Scott, one of the premier residential real estate companies in the US, has updated their...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/09/2006
Solution Highlight: YellowPages.com
YELLOWPAGES.COM recently announced the launch of its Virtual Earth powered, next-generation mapping...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/04/2006
FOX Interactive Chooses Virtual Earth platform - Solution Highlight
FOX Interactive Media's new MyFox service recently lit up some new functionality powered by Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/04/2006
Solution Highlight: Zillow
Zillow.com, one of the web's premier sites for residential real estate, including finding the unique...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/28/2006
Solution Highlight: LoopNet
LoopNet, the #1 commercial real estate service online, recently launched a new map search service...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2006
Solution Highlights
Often I find developers asking questions about what kinds of applications have been built on Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2006
Feedback on the "Commercial Control"
The folks over at Via Virtual Earth have started up a forum thread on the free-to-use, ad supported...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/17/2006
Virtual Earth Map Control Article on XML.com
Dare Obasanjo recently posted a good article to XML.com highlighting how he built a Virtual Earth...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/06/2006
Virtual Earth Highlight: Windows Live Expo
This afternoon, Windows Live Expo was released as a public beta. It is a great classifieds site with...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2006
Virtual Earth Technology Preview: Street-side Imagery
Today, the Virtual Earth team released a new Technology Preview of street-side imagery. Take a look:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2006
Map Control: Zoom Levels -> Resolution
A common question we get is, "What is the resolution or scale at a particular zoom level in Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/25/2006
Map Control: Picking the Right Zoom Level
When instantiating the Map Control, you have the option to specify a starting coordinate set and...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/25/2006
Firefox Support: Something to Experiment With
As many of you have pointed out to me, the v2 control does not support firefox as well as the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/13/2006
Virtual Earth and AJAX Tutorial
Steve over on MSN Spaces, one of product PMs who blogs all things Windows Live Local and Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2006
Old Virtual Earth Tile Servers Going Away February 12th
When we transitioned to Windows Live Local we implemented new servers for the tiles for vector,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/19/2006
Chandu's Book
The blog took a break for the holidays, but I (Alex Daley) am back and will be posting more...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/19/2006
We Broke It!? A VE Map Search Control v1 Required Update
Our recent change of the consumer site to Windows Live Local broke some of the functionality of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/15/2005
v2 Change: Map Bounding Lat/Long
In v1 of the standard control, if you needed to get the bounding lat/long of the map you could do...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/14/2005
v1 Applications not Referencing 'dev.virtualearth.net' are not Working
Just quick but important reminder note: Now that Windows Live Local has launched, if you are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2005
v2 Change: onMouseClick -> onclick
We will be posting a number of resources here and on MSDN to assist with migration ot the v2 Virtual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/09/2005
Windows Live Local powered by Virtual Earth!!
Update 1: The Virtual Earth Standard Control SDK is avilable on MSDN:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/07/2005
Virtual Earth Control URLs Changing
To provide a stable and predictable set of tools for our developers through the future, we are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/01/2005
Welcome, Virtual Earth Developers
Welcome to the new Virtual Earth developer blog. Going forward, we will strive to make this blog a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/28/2005