Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth

Posted By: keydet | Jul 18th, 2008 @ 11:08 AM | 14,084 Views | 2 Comments

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Marc Schweigert builds off of the concepts shown in his previous screencast and shows you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To learn more about the GeoRSS utility library, visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/archive/2008/07/01/simple-georss-utility-library-released.aspx

A big thanks to Eugenio Pace for letting me use it as part of my sample!

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/19/screencast-rendering-polygons-from-sql-server-2008-on-virtual-earth.aspx

Tags: Ajax, ASP.NET, DPEUSPublicSectorTeam, LINQ, SQL Server 2008, Virtual Earth, WCF

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deuce4

insanely complicated. Microsoft will hopefully address a simpler method for drawing polygons from SQL, in future releases of the VE control. Why not just make the Geography object readable by the .Net framework for use in VE?

pauley

Love the capability. What kind of effort is it to change ap from WCF to web ? any guidance on this? Appreciate any help.
Pauley