Entries tagged with virtual earth - Channel 9

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

briankel — 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.

VIEWS Sample File

jbienz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:32:31 GMT

This post includes the files for the Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS screencast.

Virtual Earth Mapping in Silverlight with VIEWS

jbienz — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT

VIEWS (the Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight) provides a fully managed wrapper around Virtual Earth for Silverlight applications. VIEWS has its roots in Microsoft Research but now lives as an open source project on CodePlex. Join us for a quick lap around VIEWS and learn how you can add mapping to your applications without getting deep into JavaScript.

Download: Sample Files

Using Virtual Earth in a WPF Application

keydet — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:52:00 GMT

Marc Schweigert shows you how to use Virtual Earth in a WPF application by using a prototype WPF Virtual Earth control. You'll also see a walkthrough of how the prototype control was built. You can download the prototype and sample application at http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/06/24/wpf-and-virtual-earth-revisited.aspx.

This Week on C9: Live Mesh, Popfly, Microspotting, Poker bots & more

Dan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:04:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover:

Updates to Live Mesh
Improve Desktop Search performance by downloading Windows Search 4.0
Lots of updates to Popfly Game Creator from Adam Nathan
The IE team sends Mozilla a congratulations cake (via Ars Technica)
Update your Silverlight.js file for Firefox 3 (via Tim Heuer)
DeepEarth: Virtual Earth + Deep Zoom (via Jamie Thomson)
Ariel Stallings from Microspotting designs cool I am the empire t-shirts
Video clip of Richard Sprague demoing Response Point and discussing how they used research to build voice grammars
Sourceforge Community Awards will include Codeplex projects
Soma discusses the Secure Development Lifecycle and how Microsoft uses it internally
Golf Course powered by Virtual Earth 3D (via Mark Brown)
Video clip of Tiger Electronics AMP robot
Brian's Pick of the Week: James Devlin: Building a Real-world Poker bot with C++ (via Avi Pilosof)
Dan's Pick of the Week: Walt Mossberg reviews GoGo: In-flight Wifi which will be coming to Virgin and American
After the end, Dan, Brian, and Laura Foy unwind at TechEd

DeepEarth: Virtual Earth using Silverlight Deep Zoom

Dan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:57:00 GMT

DeepEarth is an open source community project that combines the interactive experience in Silverlight 2 Deep Zoom with photo tiles from Virtual Earth. The end result is a mapping mashup that beautifully zooms in and out. Try it yourself or watch the demo on YouTube.

Source: Alert C9'er Jamie Thomson

Schools Near Me - Virtual Earth

yizhe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:10:00 GMT

In Singapore’s Microsoft Innovation Centre, we have been innovating on Virtual Earth. In this quick chat, I caught up with Alvin Poh, to find out what innovation he has been working on. Dubbed “Schools Near Me”, the application allows us to use a Postal Code, retrieve a set of GPS coordinates and pulls a map from Virtual Earth and overlay data onto the map to provide meaningful services and information. As the name suggests, this applications allows us to find all the schools around where I stay.

This Week on Channel 9: PDC, Pex, Build Bunnies, UltraCam, Live Agents SDK

briankel — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:53:00 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Ed cover:

- PDC Registration (0:22)
- Improvements to MSDN and Technet [C9 Videos: Site Redesign] (1:30)
- Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing (6:00)
- .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile: What's in, what's out? by Justin Van Patten (8:30)
- Mark Brown talking about the UltraCam used by Virtual Earth (10:13)
- Andrew Kirillov's article on Hand Gesture Recognition using AForge.NET (11:35)
- Release of the Windows Live Agents SDK (12:24)
- Ed's Pick of the Week: ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release and Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET MVC Beginner Videos (14:50)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: Brian the Build Bunny by Martin Woodward (17:23)
- Next Week's Show Coming from TechEd 2008! (20:45)

Special thanks to Rob Mackie, our awesome cameraman and all-knowing show technician, for playing the role of "Ed" during one of the segments. :-)

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This Week on Channel 9: April 17th Episode

Dan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:46:22 GMT

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian cover:

- Updates to Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D - including export GPS, new traffic-based directions, importing of 3D models into VE 3D (add a massive 9-guy on campus), MapCruncher for overlays of user-generated information (stadium seats), and more (0 - 2:41)
- .NET 3.5 Training Kit - ASP.NET Dynamic Data, MVC, Silverlight, etc, via Greg Duncan (2:41 - 3:30)
- Follow up from last week: .NET Rocks episode with Jon Goodyear on how to program SMS (3:30 - 5:26)
- Follow up story: Gizmodo has first video of a Surface at an AT&T store showing interactive AT&T coverage map, dynamic device colors, information and even phone comparison. (5:26 - 8:06)
- Symantec releases study showing Microsoft is #1 in fewest days in average response time for security vulnerabilities via Matt Hardman (8:06 - 9:51)
- Dan and Brian's reaction to the internal leaked Vista SP1 video and Microsoft's original response. (via forums). (9:51 - 12:28)
- The Channel 9 Dev team releases Developer Diary, a recurring weekly show on what features they're working on (12:28 - 13:18)
- The N+ Dev Team talks about how you build an Xbox Live Arcade game and how you program against lag (13:18 - 14:50)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: 15-year old Ashish Dergawan's Coding4Fun article on how to convert a laser pointer into a mouse by using a motion tracking web camera (14:50 - 16:30)
- Brian's Pick of the Week: IIS Pack for bit-rate throttling of Web Videos via Vishal Sood (16:30 - end)

Note: there were some issues with stale frames when a static image is shown in the video. We'll try re-posting an updated version, but just wanted to get this one up now.

Christian Kleinerman: SQL Server 2008 for Developers

Dan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:50:28 GMT

If you work with SQL Server on a regular basis, either writing custom queries, designing databases, or optimizing queries, this is a must see video as it covers a number of the enhancements to SQL Server 2008 including:

- SQL Management Studio improvements including IntelliSense
- New Data Types for just dates or times (no more storing time when you only need the date)
- New Hierarchical data support .IsDescendent(), that can automatically pull a hierarchical view of data (no more custom recursive queries)
- New Grouping Sets statement which enables you to automatically group dimensions in a query for easy aggregation and reporting
- New Merge statement which provides automatic insert/update semantics for keeping multiple data sources in sync
- New FileStream attribute that enables you to include files that are stored in the server file system, but can be managed by SQL Server
- New data types and support for Geodata and geometry
- New support for optimizing "empty" or row/column tables using the sparse keyword

JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control

keydet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:02:04 GMT

UPDATE: Folks are experiencing issues sending to the contribution email address. This has been fixed. Details here.

Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008? I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project! This screencast explains the solution.

The project is not finished. I need people to volunteer to contribute so we can release full intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.0. Instructions for people who want to contribute are in the screencast. The more people willing to contribute, the faster we make this available for everyone!

If you want to keep up with what's going on with the project, subscribe to my RSS feed from http://devkeydet.com. The codeplex project is http://codeplex.com/vejs.

This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Scott Hanselman!

Dan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:51:16 GMT

We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:

- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)
- Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)
- Dan - Charles Torre's Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)
- - Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)
- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)
- Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10)
- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End)

Popflyインタビュー Part 1: 日本の担当者、馬田さんが語るPopfly

c9Japan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:28:27 GMT

* Updated on Dec 3, 2007 for video streaming : 解像度を720*480に変更しました。*
This is Japanese conversation only. English subtitle is not available for this video. Umada-san talks about Popfly with demo.
The video duration is 18 min 55 sec. The video resolution is 720*480 with 564kbps.

Channel 9日本版、再開です。

Microsoftが新たに提供をはじめたPopflyについて、日本の担当者である馬田さんにインタビューしました。18分55秒のビデオです。

Popflyを始めるには、
http://www.popfly.ms/
へアクセスし、お使いのWindows Live IDでSign inしてください。

Popflyについての日本語での説明は、

http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/
をご覧ください。

馬田さんはMSDNブログを展開しており、Visual Studio ExpressやPopflyの情報を提供しています。http://blogs.msdn.com/tumada/　をご覧ください。

Silverlightについては、http://silverlight.net (英語)　や　http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/silverlight/ (日本語)をご覧ください。

Virtual Earth with Ajax and JSON

Charles_Sterling — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:35:03 GMT

At our latest Brisbane Usergroup Bronwen and John O’Brien did an awesome job presenting how to build a Virtual Earth enabled site in under 10 minutes with Ajax and JSON

Duncan Lawler - Virtual Earth 3D: What. How. Why.

Rory — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:26:45 GMT

Virtual Earth is now in 3D! Here, Charles chats with Duncan Lawler, Development Manager on the Virtual Earth team. His team of sharpshooter developers have written a fully managed API that will render any type of coordinate data into 3-D space. You can program against a scriptable API or you can create applications on top of the VE 3-D platform from any managed language in VS 2005. Very cool stuff... Tune in.

When you're done here, head over to check out on10's coverage of VE3D.

Office Client + Office Server + Windows Live Local + Windows Vista = Better Together

Charles — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:36:19 GMT

Back in July we posted Ben Riga doing a full walkthrough of the application during Sanjay Parthasarathy’s keynote at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in July. You may remember Ben from In this demo Ben demonstrates the business value of integrating Line of Business applications using Office 2007, Virtual Earth and Windows Presentation Foundation on Windows Vista. Specifically, the scenario follows along as a Retail Store Operations Manager uses Personal Productivity and Team Collaboration tools as well as advanced data visualization to make decisions about store lease renewals. Integration of information from disparate line of business systems directly into personal productivity tools such as Word and Outlook substantially increase information worker self-sufficiency and effectiveness driving individual impact. Collaboration tools that integrate line of business information to provide composite views of the business keep co-workers, partners and customers in sync. Advanced data visualization provides the right information to more people ensuring knowledge discovery and insight.

Ben’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/

Accruent’s Next Generation Real Estate Management Tool

Charles — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:19:24 GMT

For real estate managers at large retail chains the expiration of a store lease triggers a complex evaluation of the store. How is that store performing relative to other locations? Are there competitors close by? Have the demographics of the neighborhood changed significantly since the store opened? Does the merchandise of the store fit the clientele? How many potential customers live within a five minute drive of the store? To answer these questions they need data from many different sources (census data, sales data, geographic data, etc.), but even more importantly they need a tool that helps them stitch together the data and visualize it in a way that makes it intuitive work to with and actionable. In this video we take a look at how the folks atAccruent are tackling this problem by overlaying WPF 3D visualizations on maps provided by Windows Live’s Virtual Earth Services. We also look at how their tool manages the evaluation process using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services and Windows Workflow Foundation and integrates with Outlook and the other Office 2007 applications to provide a seamless experience.

Get more info about the technologies used in this video