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Thanks to contributions from users the map control now lets you create custom markers using the labeled marker library and make use of the enterprise license. To facilitate application integration the control code has been changed to make use of interfaces...
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If you haven't heard about XMPP before then I suggest that you find out what it is. In short, it's the protocol that Google Talk uses. But XMPP is so much more, and if you want to integrate real-time communication in your application, for example for...
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Plotting a marker on your map is good for making your users aware that there is something worth noting at a certain geographic location. But even with Silverlight there is a limit to what you can reasonably display at the top level. The InfoContent is...
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The OverlayManager (Reimers.Silverlight.Bing.OverlayManager) is intended to facilitate displaying overlays on the Bing Maps Silverlight control. The map control is very good for displaying map imagery, but in my opinion it gives you too much flexibility...
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The Silverlight control allows you to display map imagery from Google's Static Map API v2. The StaticMap control supports all the features of the Static Map API v2, which means you can display overlays and many different image types. You can define all...
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The Reimers.Silverlight assembly has been recompiled against Silverlight 3 RTW. This means you can start using it in your Silverlight 3 applications....
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Silverlight has a relatively advanced network stack which allows you to perform GET and POST requests to both the same domain or other domains, provided they expose a cross-domain policy (crossdomain.xml or clientaccesspolicy.xml). With Silverlight 3...
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One of the cool things about map applications in Silverlight is that they don't have the same limits on the amount of overlays it can display as HTML based maps have. This means that you can easily display 1000+ overlays without any noticeable degradation...
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By using the TimeRange attached property defined by the OverlayManager, map overlays can now be given information about their temporal context. This opens up a lot of interesting opportunities for displaying map data that changes with time with very few...
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The OverlayManager now enables you to make polygons and polylines editable directly in the map GUI. The EnableEditing method creates draggable markers on the map on each of the shapes vertices which allow you to update the position. Furthermore extra...
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The OverlayManager hooks itself on to a map from the Silverlight map control and handles how overlays are displayed on the map so you don't have to worry about setting the attached properties. It also adds KML support, so you can import and export your...
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The first beta of the Reimers.Silverlight library has been posted to the site. The assembly allows reading and writing of KML files directly in Silverlight. It is designed to work with the Silverlight map control from Microsoft. It also contains a utility...
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After 10000 downloads it has become time to reflect on where to go with the Google Maps .NET Control. Google has come out with version 3 of their map API, but Microsoft has developed a Silverlight map control. Which one to choose. Silverlight as a platform...
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I found out yesterday that Google recently launched an Analytics API. That is a very welcome to their APIs. But I was surprised to find that .NET developers were left to create their own HTTP requests and parse the results. I'm not going to go into any...
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The GoogleMap class includes the ExternalCallback event, which is intended as an alternative way to pass map related data to be processed on the server using callbacks. The GoogleMap class also includes a helper method called CreateMapCallback, which...
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Previously I wrote about creating a Silverlight control for Google Maps. Sadly Google wasn't up for supporting such a project, and still only allow you to access their map tiles through their API. Well, just shows that you get what you pay for :-) Looking...
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A practical sample of how to use the Google Translator from the Google AJAX API Wrapper example to check if your UI properly supports localization. The console application takes a file location of the resource file to translate as the only argument and...
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The latest update has a large code change to make it compatible with WCF services. The previous state serialization was changed to provide compatibility. The WCF compatibility has made it possible for DNNHost to provide webservice access to hosted geographic...
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Yesterday I wrote a post about the release of a project that can convert shapefiles and KML files to SqlGeography objects for use in a SQL Server 2008 spatial database. This post shows how you can validate SqlGeography objects in code. The SqlSpatial...
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This weekend I had a look at SQL Server 2008 to find out about the new spatial functions and types that it includes. It has taken some time for Microsoft to include spatial capabilities, but it is here now, and it looks great. However there is no way...
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It took a bit longer than I would have wanted, but now version 4 is out. So why the new version number? When version 3 was launched there was a change to the object model so that it would closely mirror the underlying JavaScript API (Google's Maps API)....
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The new version for the new year offers map definition using markup alone. No code behind necessary, but with complete Intellisense. This should make it easier for beginners to get started with map applications. Currently version 4 is only available through...
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The new version includes several fixes to the geocoding deserialization. The geocode and reverse geocode methods now allow you to specify the language of the response by passing a CultureInfo parameter. Finally, the GoogleMap class can be centered on...
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There have been many users who have asked how to make Google Maps work in their ASP.NET AJAX application. Most people tend to assume that if you put your whole page in an UpdatePanel then it will give you instant AJAX functionality. While this is true...
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The latest release focuses on the developments in Google's geocoding services. The control now includes support for both reverse geocoding and directions. Directions are exposed through the new GoogleDirections class that supersedes the previous construct...
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