Comments on: Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP available Friday, we’ve been playing already

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:54:24 +0000

I was curious if there was any source code available for the twitter demo.

By: Bob Morris

Bob Morris — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:20:20 +0000

I saw Mike’s comments on Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth in UK. This is even more true in Africa where Google coverage is quite good and Virtual Earth virtually non-existent. Effectively this is blocking us from Silverlight development until an easy way of doing it with Google Maps emerges (or MS discovers the rest of the world!)

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:14:27 +0000

[...] already had extensive experience with Bing maps and the new Silverlight control after taking part in the closed beta program in early 2009. As part of this Earthware produced a [...]

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:01:19 +0000

Mike,

According to Chris Pendleton the Silverlight Map Control is not restricted to using Virtual Earth tiles and data. There is no preset for using Google Earth tiles and data, but there’s nothing stopping you from building a solution that combines the Silverlight Map Control and Google Maps data.

By: Brian Norman

Brian Norman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:02:47 +0000

Hi Stephanie

Thanks for your comments, right now it is just showing twitter public feed of everything but we will add searching and friend feeds over the comming weeks and launch it for real.

Brian

By: Stephanie Worley

Stephanie Worley — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:56:44 +0000

Very cool. How did you set up the Tweets? Are they following a particular topic or theme?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:51:57 +0000

As a developer – currently using Google Maps in the UK and also building Silverlight applications – this is great.

Have already built a demo version of my community mapping app using the control BUT……

In the UK the quality of maps for most parts of the country are far superior (and more up to date) in Google Maps than Virtual Earth – which is a big shame and will stop any of my deployments

Mike

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:16 +0000

I enjoyed looking at your mashup! Thanks for the post.