The most basic element of Virtual Earth – maps. The Bing Maps Web control is pretty simple because you could just copy and paste code into notepad, save it and run it in a browser.
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Did you know the Bing Maps Spatial Data Service has all US Postal Codes and more? This service is what Excel and Power BI leverage to allow you to show colored polygons for regions on a map!
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Microsoft will have a booth at the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org Annual Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV Monday, September 15 through Wednesday, September 17 and the Microsoft Virtual Earth team will be there to illustrate the power of location in retail scenarios, as well as, integration with other Microsoft technologies applicable to retail. I’ll be presenting a session, as will the PacNW Virtual...
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Tim McConnell (see 48 States in an ’84 Scirocco post) made his cameo appearance agreeing to swing north to Redmond after hitting Olympia, Washington.
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I have seen a few good sites using Virtual Earth to visualize weather information. You can do it too! Check out how easy it is using our sample code.
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There are certain areas of the world where Virtual Earth’s imagery is, well, low resolution. Did you know that you can overlay your own imagery to "patch" it?
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ESRI jdoes support using Bing Maps in both their Desktop and Server offerings.
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Did you know that you can easily place GeoSpatial XML Shapefiles on a Bing Map? We have samples available in both the iSDK & Samples.BingMapsPortal.com!
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WPF still seems to be one of the most popular options for building a Windows Maps Application, Today we recommend wrapping the XAML control in a WPF "wrapper" to get all the benefits of the XAML control with the same utility as WPF.
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an incredible new visualization technology from Microsoft and since we are “One Microsoft” with some extremely exciting user experience software coming to the forefront
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