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Note: This article was written for the first pre release version of SQL 2008, Latitude and Longitude order are reversed and you would simply ignore the bounds check when greater then one hemisphere rather then the complex two polygon method described below
Virtual Earth is an amazing platform to visualise location based data over a simple web connection. By combining the images provided by Microsoft’s platform with your own data, geo-coded to its real world locati
Bronwen Zande
This article explains how to use Admin Centre to provide email and branding awareness to members of a community. We will use the Geek Girl Blogs site as the case study.
Bronwen ZandeHave you ever wanted to implement search capabilities on your own Web site but didn’t want to implement the logic and deal with issues such as storage and indexing?
The Live Search team now offers two different ways to utilize Search on your site: using the Live Search Box or using the Windows Live Search API.
Bronwen ZandeThis article is a update to Your video to Silverlight Streaming 102. It gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder to publish to your Silverlight Streaming account.
Bronwen ZandeThis article gives a brief introduction to the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API. It provides a walkthrough of how to setup, install and use the control from both an owner and a vistor user perspective.
Bronwen ZandeThis article is a follow up from Your video to Silverlight Streaming 101 gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog using Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder to publish to your Silverlight Streaming account.
John O'BrienThe version 6 update of the Virtual Earth API builds on the existing API adding new functionality, new interface options and support for the Safari web browser. This article explains the changes.
Bronwen Zande
This article discusses the basics of the using the Alerts SDK and provides some simple helper methods help you write your first alert messages
There are two different types of Live Alerts:
1. Alerts based on RSS feeds. Everything you need to know about this type of alert can be found at http://signup.alerts.live.com/brochure/index.jsp
2. Alerts based on an SDK
John O'BrienIn this video we quickly look at how you can create a 3D tour or both an imported 3D model and a saved collectionon local.live.com
John O'BrienIn this video we take a first look at the new 3D modeling in Virtual Earth and walk you through building a house and publishing to local.live.com.
Bronwen ZandeThis article gives a simple introduction to Silverlight Streaming that will allow you to turn your own video content into a Silverlight Streaming application ready for you to place on your website or blog.
The basic steps are:
Encode your video
Prepare and Upload to Silverlight Streaming
Place Silverlight video on your Website
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John O'BrienVirtual Earth Clustering with MS AJAX and C#
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John O'BrienJohn looks at the Virtual Earth 5 Custom Info box and a couple of the issues in its implimentation
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John O'BrienThe building of mygeoland.com
John O'BrienVE Dashboard Styles
John O'BrienEncoding Latitude and Longitude pairs for performance
John O'BrienPopup Content on Demand
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John O'BrienJavaScript optimisation
John O'BrienPreloading message for VE JavaScript
John O'BrienDispose the map on exit
John O'BrienFull screen support. Resizes with your browser
John O'BrienHide VE message boxes
John O'BrienSupport for Controls in 3D mode
John O'BrienFinding a location and a custom Disambiguation box.
John O'BrienKernel mode caching
John O'BrienIIS compression
Saved from the hidden documentionCreate a link to add to an e-mail, blog, or personal website that opens Live Search Maps to a specific location, map view, and zoom level. You can customize your link to display specific search results, driving directions, or items in a collection.