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Bing Maps Resources
- 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:
- Bing Maps SDK on MSDN
- Virtual Earth Interactive SDK
- Virtual Earth Forum on MSDN
- Microsoft MapPoint Web Service API on MSDN
- Silverlight Control CTP
- VIRTUAL EARTH SERVICE API TERMS OF USE
- Geographic Coverage Details
- Streetside Technology Preview
- Windows Live Maps for Mobile
- SQL Server 2008 Spatial Forum
Community sites:
Follow me on twitter for latest Bing Maps news as it happens: http://twitter.com/BingMapsDev
- Liveside.net - great news and articles about windows live
- Geoweb Guru - news and in depth Geo Articles
- MP2K - the magazine for MapPoint
Community Projects:
- WinForms Control - A must for anyone looking at using VE in a windows forms app.
- Silverlight Control - Open Source mapping control support VE Web Service.
- WPF / Surface Control – Open Source WPF control with support for the multi-touch Surface computer
- VE Intellisence – Intellisence for VS2008 for the AJAX control
- VE Toolkit – Extras for the AJAX control including MVC
- Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint – Part of the larger Community Kit for SharePoint
ESRI:
Tools:
- Intellisence for Visual Studio 2008
- MSR MapCruncher for Virtual Earth
- Virtual Earth Location Finder
- Spatial Extensions for SQL Server 2005
- General Polygon Clipper library
- Determining if a point lies on the interior of a polygon
- Build your own URL for maps.live.com
Blogs:
Get all the VE blogs in one feed of the All blogs Aggregated
- Virtual Earth, a developer blog
- Virtual Earth 3D (msdn - 3d control code in c#)
- Virtual Earth For Government
- Hannes's Virtual Earth Blog
- Virtual Earth Platform Blog
- Keith Kinnan Blog (VE Dev)
- Virtual Earth / Live Maps
- Heptazane's Stump
- Soul Solutions
- Virtual Earth 3D (spaces)
- Ricky's VE Blog
- Chris Pietschmann
- Mike Garza
- VirtualBirdseye
- Geoff Emery VE Blog
Exams:
Free GIS Data Sources:
- GeoCommons
- Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files
- Country Files (GNS)
- GeoNames Data Access
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorTuesday, October 14, 2008 11:59 PMAdded Ricky's blog
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorFriday, October 17, 2008 3:01 PMAdded Chris and Mike Blogs
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorTuesday, November 25, 2008 4:42 AMadd new blog and new aggregatored uri
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorWednesday, April 01, 2009 8:26 AMAdded new blogs
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorWednesday, April 01, 2009 8:34 AMadded new SL link and other community sites
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorFriday, May 08, 2009 8:55 AMupdated to latest links
- Edited bySoulSolutionsMVP, ModeratorMonday, June 01, 2009 11:23 PMBing Maps name change
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- I renamed the "Virtual Earth" Category on my Blog to "Bing Maps", so the above link to my (Chris Pietschmann) blog is broken. The correct link is below:
http://pietschsoft.com/category/Bing-Maps.aspx
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Platform
Blog: http://pietschsoft.com | Web.Maps.VE - ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Server Control
Hi ,I am working on microsoft virtual map control.
how to zoom virtual maps when user select two cities with line mark.
Could you help me on this? if you have any code, could you share to me
Thanks,
Murali
Murali Krishna.Konanki
