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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I noticed my old code samples around the place are a little outdated so I created this little sample based off the Bing Maps iSDK today.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

For our July Girl Geek Dinner we’re heading to The Hutch Bistro at New Farm and we’re fortunate to have Kay Lam-Beattie as our guest speaker.  So gather all of your legal/IT questions to ask Kay on the night! About … Continued

I downloaded the sample app for the Windows Live Messenger bits in preparation for our talk at Remix next week.  If you haven’t played with it, the WebToolkit Sample site is a great starting place!  There’s a couple of things … Continued

Fonts Setting fonts used to be a bit painful but I’ve found it quite easy in WPF.  In my project I’ve copied the font files into a directory structure: \Resources\Fonts and I have a font file masanreg.ttf which contains the … Continued

I’ve been using ListBoxes with IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem property set to True to do a lot of master/detail views recently.  When using MVVM with Command Pattern it’s wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to manipulate which item was selected when I added/removed … Continued

I’ve come across a few times when I want to change the layout and contents of my screen depending on what data I have in my object. I’ve found DataTriggers really useful for this.  Based on a field being populated … Continued

  Setting focus to a particular element on a screen seems like a simple and common task.  It gives the user that nice fuzzy feeling when they can just start typing in the first field of a screen without having … Continued

We’re fortunate enough to be presenting at this year’s Remix in Sydney 11th June.  We’re making an appearance in the Designer Track this year and will be showing off the new Messenger Toolkit bits.  The abstract for our talk is: … Continued

The Microsoft Mapping Road Show is back this year with sessions in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.  This year’s event is broken into both customer and partner sessions. This year’s special guest is Chris Pendleton a Virtual Earth Tech Evangelist in … Continued

DeepEarth will become an innovation centre for controls, libraries and services for use on any Silverlight mapping platform. Some Background DeepEarth began as a project for likeminded developers to explore what the power of Silverlight, DeepZoom and Maps could do. … Continued

I was asked on the MSDN VE forum if the new Silverlight control had pushpins and indeed clustered pushpins. The answer is that it doesn’t have the concept of a pushpin but rather a much more flexible method of attaching … Continued

Thursday 30 April we held our 5th Girl Geek Dinner in Brisbane.  This event was a bit different to the previous ones as we all converged upon the Microsoft office in Brisbane to have a night of Game playing. Tracy … Continued

Welcome to the monthly VE Wrap Up, did you catch what happened in March? Well April doesn’t disappoint either: Updated 3D control The 3D control was updated in April to bring higher performance and some added features. You can use … Continued

If you’re in London this Thursday you can’t miss Johannes and Simon presenting on Virtual Earth and SQL Server 2008 Spatial. It sounds like an awesome event, I wish was I was there. Come along to the SQL Usergroup hosted … Continued

This is a simple list of the various resources available for your development needs. Sign up for you developer account here: https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup Official Microsoft: Virtual Earth API on MSDN Virtual Earth Interactive SDK Virtual Earth Forum on MSDN Microsoft MapPoint … Continued

Today the Virtual Earth team announced the new version of the 3D control. To install simple goto to http://maps.live.com/?mkt=en-us and click on the 3D button. Checkout New York rendering very quickly with trees and weather! I noticed a new 3D … Continued

Keith posted this awesome Silverlight3 demo showing that although the new Virtual Earth control is Silverlight2 you can happily put this in the newer framework. With this in mind I put together this little sample showing how you can use … Continued

For Girl Geek Dinner 5 in Brisbane we’re fortunate to have Tracy Whitelaw as our guest speaker who will talk about women in gaming which is very appropriate for our Girl Geek Guitar Hero night!  If you haven’t signed up … Continued

Shown at Mix last month in Chris Pendleton’s introduction to the new CTP Silverlight control this demo adds a set of simple polygons representing most of the countries of the world to the map, colouring them based on their Carbon … Continued

March was a big month for Virtual Earth, if you missed something here is the VE Wrap Up: Silverlight CTP Released The big news was the release of the Silverlight Virtual Earth control CTP. This is the next generation of … Continued