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Nicolas Boonaert’s book on Bing Maps has been released and it looks awesome! Nicolas lives in France and is an active developer in the Bing Maps community. The book is in French, but amazingly I can still understand much of … Continued

Good news for all Bing Maps developers with windows update 979202 solving a major performance issue. CPU usage is high when you use the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 3. This problem occurs when the Deep Zoom feature cannot load … Continued

To finish up the year we’re presenting at the QLD MSDN Usergroup to show off a bunch of Silverlight 3 features like perspective 3D and Deep Zoom and combine these with Dallas, Pivot, PhotoSynth and Bing Maps. The official blurb: … Continued

Announced at PDC this week in awesome new technology preview called Pivot. I was lucky enough to get an invite code to this private preview, I highly recommend you sign up today for your invite or at least watch the … Continued

This week I caught up with Laura Diaz from NAVTEQ to chat about how Bing Maps developers can win their share of US 10 million dollars in the global LBS Challenge. This is the first year that web based applications … Continued

October 22nd is Windows7 day, I didn’t think I’d see anything new but the HP TouchSmart 600 has really impressed me. Like many I’ve been running Windows7 on my daily machine since beta2, I love the windows management, new taskbar … Continued

Back in February Microsoft had a special promotion that allowed you to get 10% off you Microsoft Certification exam and if you failed, you got a free retake. The MVP’s were given special discount codes that they could give to … Continued

Who is invited? If you are a geek and a girl or know of one who is willing to escort you then you are welcome and encouraged to come along. There is a technical focus with the intention of having … Continued

We’re in the process of building a new house here in Brisbane. It will serve as our new home upstairs and as a much larger home office downstairs. Since we’re working with clients around the world we do spend much … Continued

At TechEd Australia this year I sat down with the Delicate Genius to talk about all the software Microsoft makes for those that love taking photos. You can see the video here: http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=2a425f94-3718-46fe-8269-4c4bcfad7c61 It runs for 20min, we don’t get … Continued

Here at Tech Ed Australia 2009 we are presenting on the Bing Maps Silverlight control, it’s session WEB302. If you’re in the crowd or simply reading this after the event you can follow along with our demos here. http://about.soulsolutions.com.au/ First … Continued

Sarah Vaughan, the Windows 7 Group Lead in Australia, today demonstrated our Silverlight 3 / Windows 7 Multi touch application in the keynote of the Australian Partner Conference. The Silverlight application is built on top of Bing Maps and uses … Continued

Just an update to the sessions we’re presenting and activities we’re involved in at Tech.Ed Australia this year on the Gold Coast. WEB 302 – Bing your data to life, the Virtual Earth Silverlight control  Wed 9/9/2009 13:45-15:00 in Meeting … Continued

The project I’m working on at the moment I’m taking a bunch of content that in the previous system was stored as HTML and I’ve re-written the application in WPF and displaying the content as a FlowDocument.  Today I sat … Continued

It is very common to have a some of your spatial data sources still in SQL2005 and sometimes you don’t have the option to have this upgraded to SQL2008. Rather then having to deal with the data differently we decided … Continued

I had a situation where I needed the user to select an image to display and then move the location of the image. What I quickly found was while I was bound to the image I was holding a file … Continued

This event we’re going to try something a little different.  This year, Microsoft TechEd event is being held on the Gold Coast and we’d love to see as many of you as possible at the event – registration details can … Continued

Our 6th Girl Geek Dinner was held on the 2nd July. We were fortunate to have Kay Lam-Beattie as our guest speaker, who runs her own legal IT business and answered many legal questions from our geek girls.  Kim Weatherall, … Continued

We’re fortunate to be presenting a session at Tech.Ed 09 on the Gold Coast. Here’s our session details: WEB302 – Bing your data to life, the Virtual Earth Silverlight control Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) provides a slick and powerful … Continued

I was excited to read on my fellow Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane organiser Jenine’s blog that the Tech girls are chic! book, which she was one of many authors as well as compiled and edited, is now available on Think … Continued

I have an application where the user configures what video should display on the screen. When the user changes the video source I want to show a frame from the video so they can see they’ve picked the correct file. … Continued

I needed to assign a foreground colour to an item in code-behind and all i had was the HEX value of the colour. My first instinct was to set the foreground directly from the string e.g. textRichTextBoxEditor.Foreground = "#FF97315A"; but … Continued

We the release of Silverlight3 I thought I would share this skunk works project I have been working on. We have the Photosynth Silverlight control running inside our Silverlight3 application. We pull all the geo-referenced synths and display them on … Continued

I’m pleased to announced my project has launched for the Azure #newcloudapp international competition. Its called Traffic in the Cloud and provides a rich interactive location twist on public webcams throughout the world. So what makes this new and worth … Continued

A friend sent me a link to the You Tube video below. It’s a great example of using 3D virtual environments in learning.  The extra cool part is it’s done in a school in Sydney, Australia.  It really highlights how … Continued

I always struggle to find the full list of SQL 2008 Spatial methods for Geography when I need them so this is really just a helper post so I can find them again later but maybe it will help you … Continued

I noticed my old code samples around the place are a little outdated so I created this little sample based off the Bing Maps iSDK today. This is a little helper function that calculates 360 points around the location provided … Continued

We were at the Bing Maps roadshow in both Brisbane and Sydney, 10 and 12 June. I’ve finally gotten around to posting a few of the pictures I took from the day in Brisbane.  This year the sessions were broken … Continued

It is actually very easy to display gigabytes of custom imagery on Bing Maps with fantastic results, the trick is to know what tools to use. Read on for a streamlined process for the common geo image formats using Global … Continued

I’ve been exploring some of the fantastic Silverlight panel systems out there and was blown away by the Drag Dock Panel in the open source Blacklight project. See the full demo here: http://soulsolutions.com.au/silverlight/blacklight/ It is very impressive and makes you … Continued