Virtual Earth SSL/HTTPS Support for Secure applications. More Dev news - Interfacing

<p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/davidbarkol/archive/2007/11/23/ssl-support-for-virtual-earth-is-here.aspx" target="_blank">David Barkol shows you</a> how to reference the Virtual Earth v6 Map Control via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https" target="_blank">HTTPS</a> for authenticated/encrypted communication. For many of you this new feature in VE v6 isn't needed and carries a few milliseconds of latency, but if you're building enterprise applications that require secure communications there hasn't been an easy way to integrate mapping in your work yet. As Dave Notes: <blockquote> <p><em>This seems like a subtle change, but both Google and Virtual Earth have lacked this type of support for years.</em></blockquote> <p>For our client map control, this is quite true. Many of our government and enterprise customers have been using <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa491863.aspx" target="_blank">HTTPS with MapPoint Web Service</a> for years. Now you can use either or both together as many developers needing server-side location capabilities in their apps do. <p><strong>Hacking the Wii remote for VE</strong><br>John at <a href="http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/" target="_blank">SoulSolutions</a> just pointed me to this neat article on <a href="http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WiiEarthWiimoteInterfaceforVirtualEarth.aspx" target="_blank">Via Windows Live showing how to use your wiimote</a> to navigate in Virtual Earth. So now you have a choice - Space Navigator, XBOX controller or wiimote for surfing in Virtual Earth. Here's the video showing creator Brian Peek in action - <p> <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px"><div></div></div> <div style="padding-right:0px;display:inline;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SSL" rel=tag>SSL</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/HTTPS" rel=tag>HTTPS</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/wii" rel=tag>wii</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/wii hacks" rel=tag>wii hacks</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+Virtual+Earth+SSL%2fHTTPS+Support+for+ Secure+applications.+More+Dev+news+-+Interfacing+with+wii+remote&referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""><img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&NA=1149&PI=73329&RF=&DI=3919&PS=85545&TP=virtualearth.spaces.live.com&GT1=virtualearth">

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