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Major Bing Maps Announcements and SDK Release

June 7, 10 //

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Today, at Tech Ed 2010 in New Orleans, the Bing Maps team is making some major announcements that are sure to please. Chris Pendleton came by our studio to talk about the SDK release and to give a hands-on demo of some of the new apps. He also promotes a few contests and explains why you really need to start developing applications for Bing Maps right now!

Read the full blog post HERE.

The Making of StreetSide in Bing Maps

May 5, 10 //

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Our good friend, Chris Pendleton, decided it was time to give the technical peeps out there a sneak peak into how Bing Maps created the Streetside user experience. So, while our satellite imagery and orthographic aerial photography (Aerial map style) provide great context to accompany our vector-based raster maps (Road map style) and our oblique imagery (Bird’s Eye map style) is even higher resolution for increased zoom and cardinal rotation capabilities, Streetside brings you down to ground level (and you can go inside with Photosynth). Anyhow, for those of you interested in how they use Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) with photography (Photogrammetric processing) through a Silverlight interface and vector road information for reference points- this video is for you!

Miami311

April 23, 10 //

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The Miami311 System is a Windows Azure/Silverlight-based solution which enables City of Miami citizens report and track issues reported to city management. The system uses Bing Maps to plot the location and relevant information about each issue reported. Citizens now have the ability to easily see the status of the issue without having to call the city office.

The system offers significant benefits to the city and its citizens: Expediency, Low Cost, and Enhanced Citizen Services. Miami is making this solution available to other jurisdictions to enable then to derive the same benefits.

The system was built in collaboration with ISC; a Microsoft gold partner.

Bing Maps announces new World Wide Telescope Integration

March 22, 10 //

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Chris Pendleton and I sat down and he showed off the amazing new World Wide Telescope and Bing Maps integration. The WorldWide Telescope application allows you to view most of the features available in the Silverlight client right in Bing Maps. Yes, the WWT provides real time information about how the space is moving over the Earth. This provides context for where celestial entities are in real time if you were to look up at the night sky. Upon launching the WWT Bing Maps App, you may get so excited and just want to see SOMETHING, so just jump right in with stars.
For more info check out Chris’s BLOG POST.

TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Series, Hanselcart, MS Deploy

February 20, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Brian, Clark Sell, and a surprise guest discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Clark Sell guests hosts.
- Interesting because: Clark is an awesome developer ninja, and host of Developer Smackdown and Thirsty Developer.
Windows Phone 7 Series was announced (Gizmodo Review | Channel 9 Hands-on Look | MIX2010 Developer Story)
- Interesting because: Microsoft is back in the mobile game. Developer story coming next month at MIX.
Scott Hanselman’s project to build Hanselcart: An Embedded Social Proxy.
- Interesting because: As teams become more and more globally distributed, we need better ways of applying that “personal touch.”
10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate.
- Interesting because: It’s never been easier to install Visual Studio 2010 (including Team Foundation Server).
Fix for IntelliSense crashes in Visual Studio 2010 RC.
- Interesting because: Your feedback matters! This issue was reported by the community and fixed in a matter of days.
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC VHD available for download.
- Interesting because: You can now evaluate/learn Lab Management without needing to spend a lot of time setting up your test rig.
Free eBook on virtualization R2
- Interesting because: Virtualization is becoming an increasingly popular tool in a developer’s arsenal.
Clark’s Pick of the Week: MS Deploy for deploying web applications.
- Interesting because: With so many deployment options to choose from how do you know which one to use? This one gets Clark’s endorsement, and he explains why.
Brian’s Pick of the Week: Augmented Reality with Bing Maps, a TED talk
- Interesting because: Wow. Just, wow. You have to watch the video to believe it.

This Week on C9: VS2010 RC, Winter Olympics, Valentine’s Day

February 14, 10 //

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This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week’s top developer news, including:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC is now available for everyone to download
- Interesting because: The RC Editor performance is much improved over Beta 2
Charles Torre – Charles interviews Jason Zander on Visual Studio 2010 RC release
- Interesting because: Jason talks about the performance improvements and even how he and Scott Guthrie went and bought low-end PCs for testing Visual Studio 2010
Jason Zander – Q&A on what’s included in VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Answers questions like which Silverlight versions are supported (3 is, 4 isn’t), that the bits expire June 30, 2010, and that no Express Editions will be released
Kirill Osenkov – Stress testing VS 2010 RC
- Interesting because: Kirill talks about being part of the Perf SWAT team and how they ran stress tests of Visual Studio running 8 hours a day for 5 days
Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET MVC 2 (RC2) Available
- Interesting because: RC2 includes some API changes and this version works with VS 2008 and VS 2010 (see Phil’s post for installing with VS 2010)
Scott Hanselman – Setting up IIS 7 Smooth Streaming and Silverlight
- Interesting because: It’s a great walkthrough for everything you’ll need to setup smooth streaming
Code Project - Wiimote as a Windows 7 Sensor Driver, via Greg Duncan
- Interesting because: This shows how to build a driver for the sensor and location platform
Jeremiah Morrill – Silverlight 4 hack to use native desktop CLR without COM
- Interesting because: This (potentially evil) hack enables you to inject a native DLL into the Silverlight out-of-browser process
Jason Haley - Azure Table Query Project (on CodePlex)
- Interesting because: It’s a simple, easy-to-use tool for seeing your Azure table data
Roger Doherty - SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit
- Interesting because: Includes hands-on labs and videos for SQL developers including T-SQL, Filestream, PowerPivot, and StreamInsight
Saluse MediaKit for Silverlight - Silverlight based decoder for MP3 files, via Coding4Fun
- Interesting because: It’s a Silverlight MP3 decoder so you can add things like audio effects or use an equalizer
LiveSide Bing Maps for the Winter Games
- Interesting because: This includes the medal count, Tweets, event information as it’s happening, and more
LiveSide - NBCOlympics.com to provide Silverlight streaming including HD quality and DVR-style controls, 1,000+ hours of video, and more
- Interesting because: If you’re in the US and Canada (NBC doesn’t have a worldwide content license), this is a great way to watch the Olympics

Picks of the week
- Dan’s pick: Laura Foy’s Channel 9 Valentine’s Day video
- Brian’s pick: Brian’s recap post on all things Visual Studio 2010

Add dynamic map to InfoPath Contacts form using REST Web Service

February 11, 10 //

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In this video demo, Phil Newman, a program manager on the InfoPath product team shows how to add a dynamic map to a SharePoint Contacts list form using InfoPath 2010 and a Bing Maps REST Web Service data connection.

For full instructions see our post on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Have You Seen Bing Map Apps?

January 29, 10 //

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Here’s a tip you might not have seen yet. If you go to http://www.bing.com/maps/explore, you’ll see a panel on the left. At the bottom of that panel on the right edge you’ll see a button called “Map Apps”. If you click that you’ll find 19 applications that run on top of Bing. Some of the apps include:

Twitter Maps updates from Twitter are applied to Bing maps around the world.
Photosynth 3D photo browsing through synths inside Bing.
Urban Graffiti Images of spray painted graffiti in cities.
Urban Murals These are murals across the world including things like the huge guitar mural on the side of Hard Rock Cafe Nashville.
TrafficLand An amazing array of live traffic video from across the U.S.
Local Events See what events are happening around you.
Newseum See newspaper front pages for cities across the world.

Bing Maps Publishes Post-Earthquake Imagery

January 16, 10 //

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Bing Maps has been updated with post-earthquake images from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to Chris Pendleton the new imagery comes from Digital Globe’s Worldview 2 satellite (the one launched in the rocket with the Bing logo.) Updated imagery will be added as it comes in. MSNBC.com has created a Photosynth from some images from Haiti and an HD-View image from GeoEye satellite imagery.