Entries tagged with virtual earth - Channel 9

InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals

keydet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:16:00 GMT

Virtual Earth 3D has many applications, but until recently has only been practical on the web with a JavaScript interface. WPF applications could not use the full potential of Virtual Earth 3D without requiring a WPF wizard and some XAML magic due to Win32 interop limitations.

Information Strategies (InfoStrat) has the solution. They created a WPF / Surface control, InfoStrat.VE, and are sharing with the community on CodePlex. This control provides a WPF interface for the Virtual Earth 3D control, complete with data binding for camera control and WPF-based pushpins. All Win32 restrictions (air space control, no rotation or visual brush) are eliminated. Microsoft Surface is also supported.

Watch the interview to learn the history behind the control, see it in action, learn how to get started, and even contribute back to the community.

The video is a little long, so we have provided a timeline below in case you want to skip to specific sections:

00:00 Introduction / Background

10:18 DEMO: Surface application using InfoStrat.VE

15:00 CodePlex project / code walkthrough

38:15 DEMO: Surface application using advanced capabilities in action

43:08 Wrapup / community call to action

Expert to Expert: Gur Kimchi - Inside Bing Maps (aka Virtual Earth)

Charles — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:54:00 GMT

Erik Meijer and I paid a visit to Bing Maps infrastructure architect and Partner Development Manager Gur Kimchi for an Expert to Expert conversation about the design and architecture of Bing Maps. It takes some rocket science to process and coerce data into accurate information representative of points of interest on planet Earth. How does Bing Maps work, at the deepest levels, in the cloud? Gur and team have created a very efficient back end system that computes and returns the information you seek when using Bing Maps. Tune in. This is yet another great conversation among experts (not including myself, of course - I need to limit my caffeine intake before E2E's going forward... :)).

Enjoy!

Tool Shed Tooltip #2: Live Services, Virtual Earth, SQL 2008 Geospatial, from Episode 1

Russell Fustino — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:40:00 GMT

Learn about Live Services and see how to hook up Virtual Earth to the new SQL 2008 Geospatial support.

What is it?
Windows Live Web Services enable developers, designers, and enthusiasts to quickly create compelling web and desktop applications.

Download Site: http://dev.live.com

Example Problem(s) it solves:
Add Search, Mapping, and rich media (Silverlight) to your apps and websites.
Integrate blog, photo and contact management into your apps.

Installation Notes: Live Services are a set of web services, SDKs, samples and documentation that help you get up and running quickly.

Usage Notes: requires Live ID authentication.

This clip is Russ' Tool Shed Tooltip #2, the second of the clips from Episode One of the TV Show, Russ' Tool Shed presents... It's All About The Tools hosted by Russ Fustino and Co-Host Stan Schultes. Download code, ppt and demo script from http://code.msdn.com/toolshed for all episodes. Also, use the links on http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed to download tools. Finally, check out some more great videos on the Developer Evangelist East site: http://channel9.msdn.com/dpeeast

Scott Hanselman - NerdDinner.com

Robert Hess — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:39:00 GMT

Scott Hanselman did an interesting session at MIX09 called "File|New -> Company", where he essentially started with a blank screen, and using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Ajax, and Model View Controller he created an entire website called "NerdDinner.com", which is a social networking sites for... well... nerds, to allow them to coordinate with their friends what restaurants to go to and what to eat.

While we didn't have time in this episode to let Scott repeat this feat, we did get a chance to talk with him about how the various technologies he utilized worked with the tools in order to make it possible.

If you really want to see him take on this challenge, you can watch his session from MIX09:

File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)

And if you want more details about Scott, NerdDinner.com or Model View Controller, here are some additional links:

Chris Pendleton - Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control

Robert Hess — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Virtual Earth continues to evolve and support a very robust programming model which allows developers to create unique and interesting mapping applications. One of the most recent developments is that there is a brand new Virtual Earth Mapping control which uses Silverlight for rendering. This provides for a far richer control which gives the developer almost unlimited potential in what they can do. In this episode I've got Chris Pendleton on hand to help us understand some of the benefifts of this new control and show us some of its capabilities.

To see more about this control, you can check out the video of Chris' presentation at MIX09 here:
MIX09: Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP

And here are some additional links you might find handy:

NASA Photosynths of the Space Station and Mars Rover released in Silverlight

Adam Kinney — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:31:00 GMT

Marking the first release enabling businesses to use Photosynth, NASA has launched two Photosynths today, the International Space Station and the new Mars Science Laboratory. For more information the Photosynth team has released a video about the Virtual Earth integration.

This Week on C9: New SDKs, Silverlight 3, Web utilities and cool Show Off Projects

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:36:00 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's developer news including:

- DreamSpark now available for high school students
- Chris Pietschmann - Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control SDK
- Windows Azure Tools CTP, including FastCGI/PHP support, now available
- Rudi Grobler - Expression Blend 3 CTP Features
- How to install Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta Side-by-Side, via Alvin Ashcraft
- XNA team announces XNA 3.1 and Dream-Build-Play contest
- SilverSprite - Compile XNA 2D Games to Silverlight (C9 video), via Alvin Ashcraft
- Josh Holmes - Web Development Related Resources (AJAX Frameworks, CSS styles, etc)
- Windows Web App Gallery announced at MIX09
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta announced at MIX09 - Includes support for PHP applications like WordPress and Drupal
- Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 released
- MIX Team + Greg Duncan's Video List = Win
- DZone releases a new Refcard for Core ASP.NET
- Brian's pick of the week: Video clip of Show Off contest 1st place winner: Physics Helper using Silverlight
- Dan's pick of the week: Video clip of Show Off contest honorable mention: Control a WPF application with your thoughts using the Emotive headset

Commerce Server 2009 Web Cast - Using Store Locator Web Part

Tom Schultz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Join Web Solutions Architect, Tom Schultz from Microsoft Services for a recorded web cast on the Commerce Server 2009 Store Locator web part feature. The Store Locator Web Part provides shoppers with a tool to find a store according to a specific location, either by Zip/ Postal Code, country, state/province or city.

Show: It’s All About The Tools – TV Show, Episode One

Brian Johnson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:54:00 GMT

Have you ever felt inundated with developer tools? Do you ever feel you're missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and a power user?

There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with them. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developer challenges. This series of seminars is all about tools for developers, by developers. Join Microsoft Florida Developer Evangelist Russ Fustino & Microsoft MVP Stan Schultes and others as they bring you demos and discussion about their favorite developer tools.

In this video, you will find tools to help solve these common developer challenges…

Building and deploying video capability in websites
Integrating Mapping Services
Managing your development machine
What’s exactly in those messages in your service layer?
Need storage that’s accessible from anywhere?
Create beautifully styled WPF applications with no lines of code (and no design team!)
Easily Developing Office Business Applications

(When viewing in Silverlight, the dots on the timeline correspond to the scenes listed below.)

Tool Shed Theme Song
Introduction
Demo 1 – Silverlight Live Plug-in for Expression Encoder
Demo 2 – Live Services – Virtual Earth
Demo 3 – SysInternals
Demo 4 – Fiddler
Demo 5 – Windows Live Sky Drive
Demo 6 – WPF Application Styling by guest speaker Jason Beres of Infragistics
Demo 7 – Visual Studio Tools for Office
Developer Community Update by Joe Healy

Special thanks to co-host Stan Schultes, Jason Beres of Infragistics, Carl Franklin, DeVry University Miramar, Joe Healy, the South Florida Code Camp Team and Attendees, and the many volunteers who made this show a reality!

Special notes:

To use the Infragistics WPF Application Styling download, install the NetAdvantage Win Client and then install the Styling CTP
Listen to Dot Net Rocks on March 26 for aninterview with Russ and Stan on filming of this show along with some exciting presentation tips and tricks.

Blog: It's All About The Tools TV Show - World Premiere to be posted on Thursday, March 19

Russell Fustino — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:54:00 GMT

Are you one of over 100,000 developers who has seen a MSDN Russ' Tool Shed Event over the past 10 years? If not, now is your chance. Microsoft's Russ Fustino has captured an exciting new format for the event. It is a TV Show; including a co-host, MVP Stan Schultes, Guest Speaker from Infragistics, Jason Beres and Microsoft Developer Evangelist Joe Healy doing a developer community wrapup. We filmed this in front of a live studio audience at the South Florida Code Camp a few weeks back and it is ready to be published. Come back to this page on Thursday at approximately 11am EST for the World Premiere of a tool focused show call It's All About The Tools - TV Show, Episode One. Knowing the right developer tool for the job at hand is more important than ever, and that is what this show is all about... tools. Come back on Thursday to be entertained, enlightened and educated.

Integrate NAV & Virtual Earth

Catherine Eibner — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:33:00 GMT

Yesterday I tracked down our local NAV Escalation Engineer (AKA NAV Guru) Johan Emilsson to get him to share his Dynamics NAV & Virtual Earth integration.

He recently designed a Solution to Optimise Routes using the Virtual Earth API, and then embedded it within NAV. In this Webcast he takes us through the solution & how he made it work.

Webcast Virtual Earth - Einen Routenplaner in ASP.NETselber bauen

Jan Schenk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:09:00 GMT

Wenn ich schon einzelne Routen berechnen lassen und anzeigen lassen kann, dann sollte doch auch eine eigene Einbettung als Routenplaner nicht so kompliziert sein. Eine Ausgabe der einzelnen Wegpunkte in HTML hilft, wenn man die Route ausdrucken und unterwegs im Auto verwenden möchte. Ist das schwer? Jein, eigentlich nicht, aber es ist ein bisschen Code-Arbeit notwendig. Den Aufbau der Seite und die dahinter liegende Logik sehen wir in diesem Video.

Dazu gibts den gesamten Code und noch ein paar kleine Erweiterungen des Projektes aus dem Video in Codeform auf http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche/ !

Viel Spass!
jan

VE Codeclip - Virtual Earth Positionsbestimmung

Jan Schenk — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:47:00 GMT

Als dritten und vorerst letzten Teil der Serie über Virtual Earth und die Windows Live Tools CTP gibt es noch eine nützliche Kleinigkeit, die ich euch nicht vorenthalten will:
Positionsbestimmung per Zentrum der ausgewählten Karte.

Wir integrieren eine Standard Virtual Earth Karte mit Hilfe der Windows Live Tools, überlassen dem User die freie Wahl des Kartenzentrums über die Standard-Navigation der Karte und setzen auf Button-Click einen Pushpin, oder Stecknadel, ins Kartenzentrum, dessen Eigenschaften wir so angepasst haben, dass als Beschreibung die aktuellen Koordinaten des Pushpins angezeigt werden.

Wie in den bisherigen Codeclips auch sind dafür nur wenige Zeilen Code notwendig.

Diese Vorgehensweise ist beispielsweise sinnvoll, wenn wir Datensätze mit Geodaten versehen wollen, die händisch hinzugefügt werden müssen, weil das Aufzeichnungsgerät (zB eine Digitalkamera oder ein Audiorecorder) die Daten nicht selbst mit Koordinaten versehen konnte.

So lässt sich im Nachhinein jeder beliebige Datensatz mit Koordinaten versehen.

Die Codesnippets findet ihr auf meinem msdn-Blog unter:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche/archive/2009/01/20/ve-codeclip-iii-virtual-earth-integration-und-positionsbestimmung.aspx

Bitte beachtet, dass ihr, falls ihr hier nur Copy und Pasten wollt, die Referenz auf Microsoft.Live.ServerControls.VE noch manuell einbinden müsst. Das passiert automatisch, wenn ihr das Map-Item aus der Toolbox in die ASP-Seite zieht.

TCSWeekly 002 - Obama, Silverlight 3, 3D Models and Virtual Earth

Adam Kinney — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:05:00 GMT

The biggest news from last week in the Microsoft Client World is tied to the biggest news of January, possibly of the year 2009. If you haven't already heard it echoed on twitter and blogs, last week the Presidential Inauguration Committee announced the event will be streamed in Silverlight. If you missed the ceremony you're in luck, they will also be making the video available on demand in the future.

Other Stories mentioned in this episode include:


<-- Episode 1		Episode 3 -->

VE Codeclip - Virtual Earth Routenberechnung in einer ASP.NET-Seite

Jan Schenk — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:29:00 GMT

Teil 2 meiner Codeclip-Serie über Virtual Earth befasst sich mit der serverseitigen Routenberechnung.

Mit nur acht Zeilen Code und ein bisschen Geklicke lässt sich eine funktionale - wenn auch nicht schöne - Karte in eine ASP.NET-Seite einbauen, die eine Route mit beliebigem Start und Ziel anzeigt. Start und/oder Ziel sind dabei vom User zu definieren. Praktische Anwendung findet dieses Code-Beispiel auf Seiten, die dem Benutzer den Weg zu einem Event, einer Firma oder einem sonstigen Ort von Interesse, wie man heute sagt, weist. Eine komfortable Anfahrtsbeschreibung.

Voraussetzung für die Umsetzung des Codeclips ist Visual Studio 2008 und die Windows Live Tools CTP von http://dev.live.com/tools/.

Viel Spass beim Schauen und ich freue mich auf euere Kommentare, entweder hier oder auf http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche/!

VE Codeclip - Integration von Virtual Earth auf einer ASP.NET-Seite mit Windows Live Tools CTP

Jan Schenk — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:14:00 GMT

Einfacher geht es kaum. Wer schon immer eine Virtual Earth-Karte auf seiner Seite haben wollte und in ASP.NET entwickelt - das will ich schwer hoffen - sollte sich noch immer das November CTP der Windows Live Tools anschauen. Da ich dazu noch keinen deutschen Eintrag im Netz gefunden habe, kommt der Codeclip mit dem Beispiel der Integration gleich mit.

Kartensteuerung leicht gemacht. Mit einigen wenigen Klicks und den installierten Windows Live Tools hat man in Visual Studio 2008 eine Karte, ein Suchfeld, einen Submit-Button und ein paar Pushpins. Wer mehr will muss entweder selber ran, oder wartet einfach auf den nächsten Codeclip zum Thema. Der ist schon in Arbeit =) !

Die Windows Live Tools in der CTP vom November 08 findet ihr hier:
http://dev.live.com/tools/

Beachtet bitte, dass es sich hier immer noch um die Community Technology Preview (CTP) - Version handelt, und nicht in Produktiv-Umgebungen eingesetzt werden sollte!

Viel Spass!
jan

Live Services: Deep Dive on Microsoft Virtual Earth

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:25 GMT

Learn about the next major release of Virtual Earth. See the improvements to our parsing and geo-coding engines, clustering, localization, and routing. Hear how the new Virtual Earth Web Services provide server-side support for building location-based applications on desktops and mobile devices.

Mark Brown
Mark is an 8+ year veteran at Microsoft and has held numerous technical and business roles. Currently, Mark is a Senior Product Manager for Virtual Earth and owns the developer and partner ecosystem.

Multi-Channel Virtual Earth Viewer

Mark Brown — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:53:00 GMT

At the PDC Showoff tonight the ACE Lab at Carlton University in Canada led by Jon Wade, submitted a video that showed an incredible multi-channel version of the Virtual Earth control that provides a 180 degree view of Virtual Earth 3D.

The screen is created using 8 high-end full 1080p projectors. The code is a modified version of a sample project with a custom camera class to property adjust the FOV and camera offset for each projector and some code to synchronize the camera positions across the network. In all it took them roughly 10 hours of coding to build this viewer.

You must check this out. FREAKING AWESOME.

For best results, I suggest viewing the high-quality WMV.

PDC2008 ShowOff Entry: Multi-channel Virtual Earth

Brian Keller — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:00:00 GMT

This video is a sample of one of the entries from Microsoft PDC 2008 ShowOff. We recommend downloading the high-quality WMV of this video for the best experience.

Title of the video
Multi-channel Virtual Earth

Description
This video shows a multi-channel version of the Virtual Earth control running on a custom curved screen that provides a 180 degree horizontal field of view. The screen is created using eight high-end full 1080p projectors with a professional warping and blending system. The code is a modified version of a sample project with a custom camera class to properly adjust the FOV and camera offset for each projector and some code to synchronize the camera position across the network. The system is being controlled with a wireless Xbox 360 controller.

Names of people who should receive credit
Jon Wade

Name of your organization (if any)
ACE Lab, Carleton University

The developer and designer tools you used (both Microsoft and non-Microsoft)
Visual Studio 2008 Express
Virtual Earth Control/SDK
.NET Framework 3.5

ESRI: Green Computing

Charles — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:34:00 GMT

ESRI, a Global ISV partner, is pushing the envelope on technology adoption and environmental issues. In this interview, I talk with Senior Product Managers Rob Elkins and John Baleja about technology advancements, development needs and what the Microsoft partnership means to ESRI. Through personal experiences, customer examples and a unique environmental perspective, Rob and John give us a look into the world of geospatial analysis and the importance of Microsoft technologies in their customer’s applications. SQL Server 2008 (new spatial types), Windows Server and Client, Visual Studio 2008 (AJAX), WPF/Silverlight and Virtual Earth are highlighted in this discussion. As is the importance of the balance between managed and native code.

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner dedicated to helping people to make better decisions that affect the world around us. In “an age of Software plus Services”, ESRI and Microsoft give application developers, analysts and consumers a platform that adapts to varying needs. Many examples are cited, including land use planning, home site selection, police in-vehicle crime statistics and drive time analysis.

More information
www.microsoft.com/isv/esri
www.microsoft.com/environment

Behind The Maps - Flying the UltraCam

Mark Brown — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:51:00 GMT

In this second episode of Behind The Maps we go to Philadelphia to see the UltraCam in action. One of our partners, Keystone Aerial Surveys, shows us the next step in the process where the UltraCam is used to capture imagery for Virtual Earth.

This is a little bit of a long episode because there are three interviews in one video, but really fun to watch and TONS of great information on the next step in our journey on how we bring Virtual Earth to life.

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control - CTP Release

Mark Brown — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:28:00 GMT

Finally at long last we have released the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control (CTP Release). I spent a few minutes with Angus Logan from the Windows Live Platform Team to show off the control and give a quick demo to get you started. Go get the control from http://dev.live.com/tools, download the Windows Live Tools July CTP Release then watch the video and go build some maps. -Enjoy.

Rendering Polygons from SQL Server 2008 on Virtual Earth

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:08:00 GMT

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

Saving Virtual Earth Polygons to SQL Server 2008

keydet — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.

To download the source code visit:
http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/07/18/screencast-saving-virtual-earth-polygons-to-sql-server-2008.aspx

Behind The Maps - UltraCam

Mark Brown — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Welcome to the inaugural episode of a new video series called, "Behind The Maps". In this series we'll explore all of the technology that makes up Virtual Earth and meet the scientists and engineers who bring Virtual Earth to life.

In this episode we go to Graz, Austria and meet Michael Gruber who invented the UltraCam aerial camera and Bernhard Reitinger who created our UltraMap software. We'll spend some time getting the details on this camera and software and get an up close look at both.