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 …
Live Search comes to Facebook with custom search page
Mashable just spotted the new implementation of Live Search integrated into Facebook. According to Mashable:
…The implementation is fairly straightforward: in the search box on the top right of Facebook, which is also used for quick access to your
WorldWide Telescope Stars In Virtual Earth
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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 …
Live Mesh at PDC: David Treadwell “spills the beans”
With PDC, the Professional Developer’s Conference and Microsoft’s big coming out party for Software + Services coming in only three weeks, news is starting to filter out about what to expect. Last week in London Steve Ballmer let loose that …
A minor update to Live Search homepage
As I’ve always had My.Live.com set as my homepage, this (minor) update to Live Search homepage over at Live.com actually skipped pass my eyes. It only occurred to me today that they have updated the homepage – but don’t worry, …
Windows Live Messenger release date confirmed
According to an email sent out tonight to users of MSN Direct Spot watches, which will not support the new Wave 3 version, Windows Live Messenger is set to be released on February 10, “2008” (sic). The email gives the …
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 …
Ballmer drops a bombshell: “Windows Cloud” coming at PDC
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at an IT conference in London, revealed that Microsoft will unveil a new operating system, which he dubbed “Windows Cloud”, at PDC at the end of this month. According to a post at The Register…
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