Deep Dive introduction into the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control

Microsoft now lets people using its Live Search Maps service get a more immersive view by integrating the company’s Photosynth panoramic viewer technology, reports C/Net Photosynth stitches multiple images together into a 3D view, and people can in effect gaze around from a virtual vantage point. Areas with Photosynth views can be shown in the “explore collections” view of a map that also lets people see photos and other additions to a map. For full instructi... more

Charlie Calvert had this to say. Hey everybody. Sorry for not posting much lately. I’ve been on the road nearly non-stop for the past three weeks. And again, here I am on the road, but at least this time it is for the PDC. I’ve got a bunch in store for any of you coming to PDC this year. First up we have a booth in the Pavilion area. We are right at the entrance to the Big Hall and you can’t miss us. Just look for the 42″ Flat Screen with all that great imagery f... more

This uses the July 2008 CTP of the Windows Live tools. You can download the Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio .   One of the interesting features of Virtual Earth is that it doesn’t have to use the maps provided by Microsoft. You can set it up to point to another tile server so that you can use your own maps. This could be extremely useful for people who want to show static visualisations of data, or simply display something different to what Microsoft give you. Setting up... more

As you may suspect, your hard drive is failing. Based on your report you will need recovery software or a service (most local computer shops are set up for this). Do NOT continue trying to access a failing drive if you still hope to get data from it. It will fail completely on you. It may already have. I use some software from OnTrack for hard disk recovery (seldom but vital when needed). http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/d...very-software/ You should try your c... more

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Somethings that puzzles me since the stone age of the Internet: Practically each browser has a "Stop" button (usually next to the "Go" button). Why do these Stop-buttons practically never work properly? Almost everytime, if some website does not react and I want to get the browser "reactive" again, I try to press stop to abort the request and/or the download. This almost never works! Is it really so hard to interrupt or kill a process that opened an IP connection and sits there ... more

Hi All, How can you inform Microsoft that there is a Magic Bug in Internet Explorer that can be repeated? Magic Bug: Internet Explorer is open in Web Mail and you open a message. You go to a Forum to read the message at the Forum. You click Reply to answer. Now you click Submit to post your respond, which has been accepted. Since you don’t need to see your posted respond, you close the Tab. That’s when the bug comes into play. After you see that you will redirected to ... more