Here's a short, simple example of wiring up Virtual Earth to zoom/pan the map to showing the best fit to center on a specific Shape object that is clicked on by the user.

This example works in both 2D and 3D map modes.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var map = null; function GetMap() { map = new VEMap('myMap'); map.LoadMap(); /// Attach a handler to the Maps OnClick Event map.AttachEvent("onclick", Map_OnClick); /// Add a couple Pushpin Shapes to the map var shape1 = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin, new VELatLong(49.74999, -99.71)); shape1.SetTitle("Shape 1"); shape1.SetDescription("Test Shape 1"); map.AddShape(shape1); var shape2 = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin, new VELatLong(39.74999, -96.71)); shape2.SetTitle("Shape 2"); shape2.SetDescription("Test Shape2"); map.AddShape(shape2); /// Add a Polygon Shape to the map var shape3points = new Array(); shape3points[shape3points.length] = new VELatLong(37.74999, -99.71); shape3points[shape3points.length] = new VELatLong(37.74999, -110.71); shape3points[shape3points.length] = new VELatLong(32.74999, -111.71); var shape3 = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Polygon, shape3points); shape3.HideIcon(); // Hide the Polygons Icon Image map.AddShape(shape3); } function Map_OnClick(e) { // Check if a Shape was clicked if (e.elementID != null) { // Get a reference to the Shape that was clicked var shape = map.GetShapeByID(e.elementID); // Set the MapView to the Shapes collection of VELatLong points // This will zoom and pan the map to the best view to show all the points of this Shape map.SetMapView(shape.GetPoints()); } } </script> <body onload="GetMap();"> <div id='myMap' style="position:relative; width:400px; height:400px;"></div> </body>

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