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Drawing Circles with the VE API
Posted on December 11th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Last month ViaVirtualEarth launched a developer wiki with some nice code samples. Via has always been a great resource for the VE developer com...

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Drawing Circles with the VE API
Posted on December 11th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Last month ViaVirtualEarth launched a developer wiki with some nice code samples. Via has always been a great resource for the VE developer com...

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Gaia, MapDotNet, and PietschSoft: dev treats for VE
Posted on December 3rd, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Here's a roundup of some developer tools and libraries I've been watching First up is Gaia from The Carbon Project (not to be confused with Gaia opensource proj...

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Developing Applications with Virtual Earth
Posted on November 13th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
Last week we added an exciting new feature to Virtual Earth - the ability to navigate in 3 dimensions. Not only exciting for our web site vi...

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Happy v1 GeoRSS!
Posted on September 14th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
The V1 spec for GeoRSS is out, coincidentally just about a year from its inception. GeoRSS is an Extension of RSS that allows the author to enco...

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MapCruncher now supported in Virtual Earth map Control
Posted on September 12th, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
MapCruncher is a tool from Microsoft Research that lets you take any map (a pdf, jpg, png, eps...) and turn it into an interactive Map layer i...

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Add 400 Million contacts to your Web application or mashup
Posted on August 23rd, 2006 on Windows Live Local / Virtual Earth
A powerful new component for web develpers appeared at the live.com developer site this week. It allows a web developer to integrate Live Cont...

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