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Load Virtual Earth on Demand

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and …

Bring your own Tile Provider to Virtual Earth, OpenStreetMap

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control has supported tile overlays for some time. A tile layer is set of 256px square images matching the Mercator projection of Virtual Earth. Tile layers are usually layered on top of Virtual Earth, the control …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 7

Corrections

Before moving onto the next part of the Web Messenger User Control, I was running through the code I have developed so far and happened upon a couple of bugs, so this part of the Web Messenger User Control …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 6

Continuing our series on the Web Messenger control we will take a look at a couple of more API calls you can make and give your control added functionality.

Going back to our class there are another couple of properties …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 5

In the last part of this series we covered customizing the Windows Live Sign-In Control and some of the new features that have been added to the API for this control.  In this part we will cover some of the …

Video – Getting Started with the Virtual Earth Web Service

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.

VEWS

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Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 4

In the last part of this tutorial we covered the links and the new Show and Hide functionality of the Sign-In control. In this part, as promised, we will get to the customization options that are available to you with …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 3

In the last part of this series we added the necessary framework to put in the place the sign-in control and get it working.

MessPlainSignIn

So now that you’ve got the sign-in control displayed in your User Control, what can you …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 2

Following on from the first part of this article where we managed to register Ajax classes and get a basic outline that we can play around with for our new messenger User Control, we come onto logging in to web …

Creating a Web Messenger control from Scratch – Part 1

The preface to this little project is that at work I have been handed a project which is all about styling. Given the recent release of Windows Live Messenger Wave 3 beta, the new 2.5 API set and the customizations …