In this show, we talk with Chris Pietschmann, a developer and a Microsoft MVP on the Virtual Earth platform. Chris tells us how he got started on Virtual Earth back in the beta of version 1.0 and gives us a good overview of the product.

Chris' session was a deep dive on the Virtual Earth Platform and goes into some details about our UltraCam digital aerial camera that we use to capture imagery. He also talks about how we create 3D models and some cool demos as well on Virtual Earth. Finally he does the Silverlight VE control demo t...

Previously I simply passed the current bounds to the server, it got the data I needed and passed it back - all was good. The issue was scalability, as hundreds of requests are made these bounds were very unique even if the data they wanted to show was the same. The solution? Create and oversize a st...

Some types of plug-ins feature special data or rendering, and are intended to be used with a particular website. Others are intended to enhance the experience of all websites, and run every time a user runs VE3D. Most of the samples given so far have been about the former, where the test html page...

I am happy to announce that we have a new release of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper to bring Intellisense in sync with the new Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1.

I’ve update my primary Virtual Earth (VE) map control demos. If you aren’t familiar with my VE demos, they are essentially all the samples from the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK redone in a Visual Studio solution. My directory structure maps almost identically to the steps treeview in the Interactiv...

Just last night we released a minor update to Virtual Earth. Besides the fact that we can now generate the tokens for the Customer Identification and thus the transaction counting not only in the production- but also in the development environment we return now the complete route-geometry when you c...

Here's a short, simple example of wiring up Virtual Earth to zoom/pan the map to showing the best fit to center on a specific Shape object that is clicked on by the user.

This example demonstrates the ability to restrict the viewable area (and impose map boundaries) of a Virtual Earth map to be within a specified distance from the maps original center point (at time of initial load), and restrict to a maximum zoom level. Why might you want to do this? There are times...

I get requests on how to draw radius' around points on the map. And, up until now, I never needed to do it myself, so I didn't have a code snippet to do it. I did a search and quickly found an example over at viavirtualearth on how to do it in an older version of Virtual Earth. Other than being code...

A couple days ago I posted some code to "Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript", so today I decided to post a small sample program that shows a more "real world" example of puting that code to use. Here's a small program I wrote (in pure HTML and JavaScript) th...

Loading alot of pushpins on the map can slow down your page in two ways: 1) Page load times can be slowed down, and 2) loading pushpins via ajax can be slow. To improve the performance (as in download and database query times) of loading pushpins on the map, you can load the Pushpin Shapes Title and...

About a month ago, I wrote an article titled "Virtual Earth: Getting Started - Adding a basic Map to a page". In that article I explained the basics of using Virtual Earth with plain HTML and JavaScript. This time I'm going to explain the basics of using Virtual Earth with ASP.NET AJAX.

Yesterday, I released the fourth update release (v1.00.04) of my Web.Maps.VE component. The main feature addition in this update is the addition of .NET 3.5 support. Web.Maps.VE is an ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control. It abstracts out the need to write JavaScript when implementing V...