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Alex Knight has published a nice tutorial on creating a hotspot effect. It is worth a little look if only to have some fun and get a look at animations and events in blend2.5. Follow the linked image to see … Continued

Jonas has already mentioned it but if you are looking for way to automate a batch process for creating assets for DeepZoom then Giorgio has the answer: http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/archive/2008/05/05/deep-zoom-batch-export-programmaticly-using-c.aspx My little tip is how to get this to work in Vista … Continued

I’m helping John with a few things today. I tried to compile one of the project’s he’s been working on and was presented with a cryptic error message: Error in debug compilation for WebApp project “Unable to write to output … Continued

I went and visited my old friend Dave yesterday and got to play with his 4 lane scalectric track he has been setting up in the garage. Pretty awesome to see this brand lasting the test of time. Dave has … Continued

Been meaning to post some of the girl geek events around the place..but have been slack / travelling a bit.  So I’ll just show them all in one post instead 🙂   Girl Geek Dinners – Auckland, NZ are having … Continued

We’ve been a bit lax in our blogging the last week…mainly because we were travelling around for Remix Australia.  For those who missed out you missed an awesome event! So I’ll use this post to give my highlights of the … Continued

We've had some really nice emails from the students at QUT after we did a guest lecture earlier in the week. Some of the follow-up questions and comments were around getting a job while studying and how to get a … Continued

I know I haven't posted something code related on Virtual Earth in ages, rest assured I've just been very busy. The 4 green boxes are the screen bounds passed to the server for data in many of my older virtual … Continued

 Remix is coming to Australia – double strength.  There are 2 separate events in Australia this year. 20th May in Sydney, and 22nd in Melbourne. We're presenting a couple of demos at both events in the Windows Live session with … Continued

I posted my first dev article on liveside.net on the weekend, it all about making a panorama, using deep zoom, virtual earth and silverlight streaming. Today I checked the reports on usage: 5,644 hits on the sample application in a … Continued

  We were invited to present a guest lecture (2hrs) at QUT today on Web Applications in the Real World.  Our brief – show some cool demos and tell some stories about working in the real world.  We had some … Continued

I always find it frustrating in SQL2005 (I know things are different in 2008) that Enterprise Manager doesn't provide an option to export data in your tables out as SQL Scripts. I can send to CSV, DTS, Text etc. but … Continued

I found the need to be able to call my .Net WebService using HTTP Get. Usually all you have to do to get this to work is use the following format: [webservice asmxlocation]/[functionname]?[parameters] When i did this i was getting … Continued

Using my new panosaurus tripod head and new Monfrotto tripod I headed down to Kangaroo Point in Brisbane and took a few snaps, this is my favourite courtesy of Silverlight Streaming (9,824×3,922px = 38.5 MegaPixel): See more Brisbane Panoramas here

I ordered this last week, it allows you to centre your camera on your tripod to take more accurate panoramas. A bargain at about AU$100 delivered. Planning an early morning trip to capture something special but this gives you the … Continued

Still addicted to the new Birdseye images for Australia in the latest imagery additions from Microsoft I thought it would be cool to make a PhotoMosaic from the Virtual Earth assets. (Click to see full resolution using Silverlight Deep Zoom.) … Continued

All of a sudden my project stopped autogenerating the designer.cs files for all my page and controls in my Visual Studio 2008 project.  Apart from being really annoying it’s just WRONG!   No matter what i did it wouldn’t fix … Continued

Today we took the time to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke, 4.8.2. We also installed a module from dignuke to allow us to post directly with Live Writer to not only the blog but all the html content … Continued

Is Andrew Coates upto something with DG’s identity? Very creepy…

This drove me nuts for a few hours.  Using appendChild in javacript to dynamically create a html table (yes..tables are so yesterday).  The code looks good, but nothing shows up when i view it in Internet Explorer. Turns out you … Continued

What is better then a few images and links of the new Birdseye for Australia? How about a 5min video exploring some of the cool new images in 3D! Click to start the video (Requires Silverlight)

Blogging has been a bit light on this month. As you may have noticed we spent a lot of time travelling this month.  We discovered it takes as long to get from Brisbane to Montreal as it does to get … Continued

Its been a long time comming for us down under but today four major cities have been given the Virtual Earth Birdseye treatment. Click on the links to be taken to map.live.com and check them out in detail: Sydney Opera … Continued

Yesterday I drove Bronwen crazy by trying to perfect a 270degree panarama of a lake about 30min from our lodge. Its 106 MegaPixels when cropped. Best results where using F18 on a tripod but still had focus and whitebalance inconsistancy. … Continued

Today we grabbed our hire car…we upgraded to a bigger car to get the Sat Nav and it’s definatly worth it! Spent the morning in more meetings at Microsoft before heading over to Bellvue to grab John some Bose Noice … Continued

Today was the last day of the summit.  The last session was the locknote with Steve Ballmer. The guy is truly amazing..so much energy! The MVPs got to ask questions/give feedback.  Steve was there writing notes and answering each question. I … Continued

One of the “big things” about going to Microsoft Campus is the chance to visit the company store.  Here you have access to very cheap software/hardware aswell as an array of microsoft branded swag. We popped in about 5pm on … Continued

First day of sessions.  Was really good to put some faces to names after many msn conversations and emails. After the Product Group party, Angus was nice enough to take us to play with a Surface.  About 6 of us … Continued

Well we made it onto the flight to Toronto, and 6 hrs later we’re in Seattle.  The best news is our bags have beaten us (probably made the plane they kicked us off of) and we can grab them and … Continued

This example comes from Steve Lombardi’s blog post last year and has been updated to the latest version of Virtual Earth at the time of writing. The code and collection was presented at the Museums and the Web conference in … Continued