This is the third in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be.

This is the second in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be. The three types of Inheritance mappings ...

This is the first in a short series of posts I am working on. While reading through NHibernate in Action I thought to my self that I should create these same examples of Inheritance mapping using Fluent nHibernate to show how simple these mappings can be.

OpenStreetMap has been around for awhile and provides free geographic data that can be used by anyone. The data is all community created/contributed and that’s why it’s free to use. Other mapping services such as Bing Maps for Enterprise and Google Maps license their geographic data from some other ...

This is the first official release of the Virtual Earth Toolkit. The Virtual Earth Toolkit is a set of JavaScript-based Controls/Tools that Extend Virtual Earth with functionality that is commonly implemented, but hasn't been implemented within the Virtual Earth JavaScript Map Control. The Controls/...

MEF doesn't support POCO injection and XML Configuration off the shelf. Sidar implements an XML congiguration binding mechanism on top of MEF, and the article gives an insight about what to expect from MEF Extensibility models in detail.

How to perform a polygon search to determine if a given Lat/Long point is within a given Polygon

I worked on a more creative/reusable approach to hosting Virtual Earth in a WPF application. If you have looked at any of my previous samples showing how to host Virtual Earth in a WPF app, you'll recall I was using the WinForms WebBrowser control to host an html page that in turn hosts Virtual Ear...

Now that we've Made Sense of the U.S. Census ZCTA ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) files in Part 1 of this series, we are ready to import the U.S Census ZCTA Zip Code data into a database. In Part 2, we'll create database tables and import the Zip Code Boundary data into those tables in a MS SQL 2005 dat...

The data I'll focus on here is the Census 2000 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) in ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format. Even though these files are in their own "special" format, described here, they are still just plain ASCII and easily converted into CSV files to be imported into...

In Virtual Earth we use lat/lon pairs everywhere, for pushpins, polylines and polygons but also for map bounds like the current view. This article aims to look at a better way to store and transmit these values. The encoding algorithm used is from Google maps. You will find an explanation of how and...

Some great examples of Virtual Earth + Silverlight Deepzoom!

Today, I released Web.Maps.VE v2.0!! If you aren't familiar with Web.Maps.VE, it is the industries first ASP.NET Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control. It enables you (the developer) to implement MS Virtual Earth mapping into your ASP.NET web applications by writing only server-side code; there is ab...

The feedback from Part 1 has been great! There is definitely interest in this. Shaun Becker sent through this gem that removes my proxy server completely! Yes we now have Silverlight Deep Zoom talking directly to Virtual Earth! And better still I can give you a live demo (need SL beta2 installed – c...