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Released on Monday the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth control is very cool. I’ve spent the weekend sharing some of my knowledge of the control. Get the full set of 8 videos from LiveSide: http://tinyurl.com/veasp The sample site is fully downloadable … Continued

This marks our 500th blog post since 6th August 2006! So to mark our 500th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures for our last 100 blog post days! We’ve seen a lot more interest in Silverlight Streaming and Silverlight … Continued

We’re going to the extreme! We’ve signed up to do 12 interactive presentations in one day about Virtual Earth at this year’s Technology Takes You Anywhere event, held on August 22nd in Brisbane. For those who haven’t heard of the … Continued

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to participate in the Brisbane Virtual Earth day as one of the customer case studies. As you can see below, there was a really good turnout in the Brisbane office. The day included an introduction … Continued

If you want to export some data into excel in ASP.Net without having Excel on your server a good way to do it is it use a GridView and ADO.Net to do this. There are a few little tricks/snags you … Continued

The first month of the new financial year has just flown by! So what have we been up to this month? We became a Microsoft Certified Partner Launched and SOLD OUT the first Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner in Brisbane Updated … Continued

Back in March I had an article on Live Search published in Code-Magazine. I’ve finally gotten around to publishing on our site. You can check it out here. Technorati Tags: Live Search,Code-magazine

Amanda Abraham has being doing a great set of posts featuring Geek Girl bloggers from around the world. I’ve added the feed into Geek Girl Blogs or you can check it out directly here. This week it’s about me 🙂 … Continued

For Xmas last year I asked for a worm farm and some worms. I’ve had all the bits about 6 months now and surprisingly the worms are not only NOT dead, they are happily multiplying. So between the dog (who … Continued

Well I’ve had my Dell XPS 1530 for almost 2 months now so I thought it’s a good time to write down what I think of it. Overall, I’m really happy with it. It’s lighter and faster than my old … Continued

Dinner 1 of the Brisbane Girl Geek Dinners is SOLD OUT!!!! Send us a message if you missed out and want to know about future events. Technorati Tags: Girl Geek Dinners,Brisbane

This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration. I hope they enjoy themselves and welcome … Continued

We recently became a Microsoft Certified Partner and today we received two big boxes of goodies via FedEx from Microsoft. These contained our welcome kit, software, a big banner and two nice plaques to hang on our wall. The smaller … Continued

So you’re a Virtual Earth Developer, busy times, why would you want to sit an exam on it? I sat the beta exam last year and although caught out a little by the MapPoint Web services questions got a reasonable … Continued

Today we released an update to www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au to support RSS feeds of everything in the collection. One benefit of allowing access to the rich content in XML is third parties can do amazing things. PicLens offers an amazing experience for … Continued

Part of qualifying for the Data Visualisation Specialisation calls for 2 members of your organisation to pass the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0: Developing Applications exam.  Ever wondered how many people have passed that exam? Well now you can… John stumbled … Continued

Girl Geek Dinners kicks off in Brisbane in August. All the details can be found here: http://girlgeekdinnersbrisbane.blogspot.com/2008/07/girl-geek-dinners-brisbane-dinner-1.html Technorati Tags: Girl Geek Dinners,Brisbane

Today we received confirmation that we had achieved Microsoft Certified Partner with Information Worker Solutions Competency (Data Visualisation Specialist) for our work with Virtual Earth. We thought we’d see who else is in the same area and had a look … Continued

I found this bug today in the default code outputted from the Deep Zoom Composer code. It doesn’t take into account the aspect ratio when panning so you need to divided the width by this ratio or else or vertical … Continued

I recently put my car up for sale on a few of the leading used car sites here in Australia. In preparation for the sale I had the car detailed and took some nice high resolution pictures of it. You … Continued

I wanted to bind a gridview to a datasource connected to a view and kept ending up displaying MinDate for the date fields that were Null in my database. I couldn’t find a way to fix this as part of … Continued

Well the end of financial year (EOFY) has ticked over. It seems to have gone really quickly. So what have we been up to this month? I had a few weeks off after an unexpected trip to hospital and got … Continued

In the latest MSDN Flash Finula asked a few of us for our top tips on being a great developer. Mine was: “Love Learning”We can't always be on the most exciting project with the latest and greatest technology so look … Continued

Changing your local folder in Team Explorer is a bit hidden.  To get to the setting Open Source Control in Team Explorer, and open the Workspace dropdown and Select Workspaces…. Choose the workspace you want to change and Select Edit … Continued

The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool … Continued

There’s a bunch of Girl Geek Dinner events coming up I should mention.   Girl Geek Dinners – Melbourne On Ice Sunday June 29 at 2-4pm – Ice Skating at Docklands Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne – Dinner 1.0 Thursday July … Continued

We attended Google Developer Day – Sydney 2008 earlier in the week so thought it’d be good to share some observations / thoughts. When you work in one technology area for awhile it’s good to see what others are doing. … Continued

With Roger’s Demos Happen {Here} Competition in full swing, I thought a new article to help get your videos in might help a few people.  So I’ve created a new article on how to upload videos to Silverlight Streaming using … Continued

Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun … Continued

  For those of you in or near Brisbane, there’s a Virtual Earth Event coming soon – see below for details. For those in Melbourne, check out Dave’s blog post here The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an … Continued