Virtual Earth Developer News

<p>If you are building applications with the Virtual Earth Map control, here are a bunch of recent newsy items. <p><strong>Verison 6.1 API released</strong> - last week the API was rev'd to 6.1. new features include Walking Directions and reverse geocoding and a bunch more. Full details in the <a href="http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/" target="_blank">VE Dev Center</a>. read more <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/04/11/new-virtual-earth-api-release-virtual-earth-6-1.aspx" target="_blank">Here</a>, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/04/11/walking-directions-sample-in-ve-6-1.aspx" target="_blank">Here</a>, and <a href="http://johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!42E1F70205EC8A96!3858.entry" target="_blank">Here</a>. <p><strong>VE Intellisense Helper</strong> - If you use Visual Studio to build your Virtual Earth apps, be sure to grab the <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/04/17/new-release-virtual-earth-javascript-intellisense-helper.aspx" target="_blank">latest Intellisense Helper</a> to synch up with all the new 6.1 stuff. It makes writing javascript almost fun. <p><strong>Dave Bouwman's Blog</strong> - I learn something new every time I visit - there are precious few map/gis blogs, dev or otherwise, that I can say this about so be sure to <a href="http://blog.davebouwman.net/" target="_blank">add this to your feed list</a>. Dave is my <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/" target="_blank">Coding Horror</a> in the mapping world! <p><strong>3D Developer Blog</strong> - Members of the Virtual Earth 3D Dev team <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/VirtualEarth3D/" target="_blank">have started a blog</a>... about* programming with VE3D :-)* The scoop doesn't get any more inside than this. learn how to <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth3d/archive/2008/04/19/creating-the-most-basic-windows-form.aspx" target="_blank">use the VE3D map control in a WinForm app</a> among many other great tips. <div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin:0px;padding-top:0px;display:inline">Technorati tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth SDK" rel=tag>Virtual Earth SDK</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Virtual Earth" rel=tag>Virtual Earth</a></div><img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=3151506992847969176&page=RSS%3a+Virtual+Earth+Developer+News&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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