<p>If you recently launched our Live Search Maps site—or any site powered by the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/industry/publicsector.aspx" target="_blank">Virtual Earth</a> platform and using the Virtual Earth 3D mode—and found that you had to again download the 3D control, knowing that you did this in the past, it is because we just updated both the 3D map control as well as the AJAX API. <p>Explanation of this borders on the technical and is better left to Chris Pendleton, our Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist, who <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/04/09/virtual-earth-api-release-information-april-2009.aspx" target="_blank">explains it all in his blog</a>, but a quick summary is as follows: <ul> <li>Native Support for Internet Explorer 8 <li>New Virtual Earth AJAX Map Control Methods <li>Extended Local Listings <li>Updated 3D Map Control <li>Updated Software Developer Kit</ul> <p>In addition to explanations for these upgrades, Chris provides sample code for for the new AJAX map control methods, so you technical types should be sure to read <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/04/09/virtual-earth-api-release-information-april-2009.aspx" target="_blank">his entry</a>. <p>-=Virtual Jerry

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