Blog

Announcing New BuildHoloLens.com Blog!

Life Rules

Announcing new Azure blog: BuildAzure.com

Feb. 23rd 2010: Blogs been dark lately, but I've been busy, busy... Neuroscience what?

Top Posts of 2008 Plus Overall Traffic Stats

Blogging Addiction

Busby SEO Test

$700B Bail-Out Bill Passes, Maybe It's Not So Bad Afterall...

8/11/2008 - My email is currently down

Can you do 100? Pushups that is.

About Me

Amazon.com is down

Search Keyword Highlighter BlogEngine.NET v1.3 Extension

I just finished migrating to BlogEngine.NET...

DotNetKicks is 2 years old, today! Way to go!

My RSS Feed URL has changed.

12/2007: Code that I've Blogged over the last 6 months

My Blog content is now licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License...

Motorola.com Promo/Coupon Code for 15% Off

Proposed DotNetKicks Redesign!

Top posts of all time as of 2007/9/27

Links - 2007-09-26

Weekly Links - 2007-09-07

Self Employed and time for contract work

What's the best web-based RSS reader?

7/6/2007: Yahoo is down?

LunchTimeCoder Day 2: Moleskine and not much code

7/07: Godaddy Promo Codes

Email/Website Outage - 06/22/2007

Site Referral Keywords: Top 10, Strange and Surprising

Thinking about switching email to GMail for My Domain?

Make your RSS feeds Auto-Discoverable

DotNetKicks auto bookmarklet

Spring is finally here, and the Thunderstorms have begun...

I've been slacking lately...

Oct. 3rd is the Day Against DRM...

Building a 'successful' blog...

New Web Service that exposes MSDN content for your consuming needs!

DotNetKicks: Social bookmarking site for .NET

I recieved my MSDN subscription today!!

The New Website is now Live!

MSN Spaces Removes Chinese Bloggers Blog

My new website is coming soon!

Video Game Music on Piano!

RSS is no longer a one-way street

My first time having a link get to the homepage on Digg.com

My brother-in-law and cousin are in Iraq

I have alot of .NET books...

SlapDev.com abandoned for now

The new SlapDev.com is being born...

I start a new job on the 28th!!

Ok my blog works for now...

Stupid Blog is broke again...

The skinny on Office 12!

Wahoo!! My blog is fixed for now...

My blog seems to be malfunctioning! Ahhh....

OS-tans - these are like Anime mascots for the OS's

How Nerdy are you? :: My Nerd Score: 55 - Lightly Nerdy

EMail (POP3, SMTP and MIME) looks complex but is in fact really simple

Merry Christmas, 2004!!

My Latest Project: POP3/SMTP EMail Client

Virgin Mary In Grilled Cheese - Looks more like Marylin Monroe

CHRIS CHRISTMAS RODRIGUEZ

Homestarruner.com - pretty cool toons

Holy crap I have a blog!

.NET

Code Tip: Simpler Performance Timer Logging in C#

5 Common C# tasks in Apple Swift Programming Language

What “var” really means in C#–It’s not “variant”

Using MiniProfiler with SqlDataSource ASP.NET WebForms Control

Design Patterns: Basics of Dependency Injection

SQLinq: Use LINQ to generate Ad-Hoc, strongly typed SQL queries

Unit Testing with SqlException in .NET: Only with help from Reflection

Entity Framework Tips and Tricks: Use GetObjectByKey When Querying a Single Entity

Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4

Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures

Odd .NET Namespace Scoping Causes Compile-Time Exception

.NET Windows Service Installer and Auto Start After Installation

C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in Windows

Managed JScript on the DLR from Microsoft is DEAD!! WHY?!??

.NET Framework: Communicate through NAT Router via UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)

Simple Port Scanner Written in VB.NET 2003/2008

Single Instance WPF Application in .NET 3.x

A Free Open Source Ribbon Control for Windows Forms!

A Couple VB.NET Language Tips for C# Developers

WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1

Place a StackOverflow badge on your website

.NET 3.5 SP1: DataContractJsonSerializer Bug

SQL 2008 RTM Released, and includes .NET 3.5 SP1

C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

dotNetExt - .NET Extension Method Library - v0.1 Beta Released

C#: Enhance Enums using Extension Methods

.NET 3.5 SP1: A Service Pack or The Real .NET 3.5

Mono: WinForms finally API complete and Moonlight v1.0 is released

.NET Community: Learn The Current State Of The Platform Before Deciding On Its Future

.NET 3.5: JSON Serialization using the DataContractJsonSerializer

.NET: Why aren't Private Abstract methods allowed?

Introduction to LINQ

Web.Maps.VE - Virtual Earth Without JavaScript, plus .NET 3.5 Support just added!

.NET: How to Alias Namespaces and Data Types (C# and Visual Basic .NET)

Subsite Rewriting HttpModule for ASP.NET

ASP.NET 2.0: RewritePath breaks HyperLink's ImageUrl in App_Theme file when path with slash is rewritten

Microsoft to release .NET Framework 3.5 as Shared Source!

LunchTimeCoder.ServiceMonitor v1.1 Released

LunchTimeCoder: Windows Service Monitor that runs in the System Tray

.NET 3.5: How to Convert from one TimeZone to another

C#: Give your object a Default Indexer Property

C#/VB.NET: Extension Methods

Apple's iCal implemented in .NET/Mono

C# .NET: Convert System.Drawing.Color to HTML color

The My namespace in Visual Basic 2005 is extensible!

.NET Framework - Check if Windows booted in Normal or Safe Mode

Boolean Expression in .NET: strName IN ('CHRIS','TOM','TYLER')

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2: Error 50266 installing .NET Framework 2.0

Giving your application a Plugin based architecture is easier than it sounds...

VB.NET: Make a Form semi-transparent when moving and resizing it

AnyMail 2.0 Released

VB.NET 2005's 'My' namespace for Mono

Write to the Event Log in .NET (VB.NET and C#.NET)

Why do we need to handle the RowUpdated event of our DataAdapter in order to reflect the ID in a Primary/Foriegn key relationship??

Fill DataSet with multiple Tables and update them with DataAdapter

Mono 1.0 Released!!

Tools

Image Editing Tools: Here's what I use

Tools Don't Make You Great

Useful Developer Tools and Other Programs

Develop Software for the Microsoft Windows Platform for FREE

My First Experience with ReSharper v3.1, not so good

Paint.NET: How can I edit Icons and Cursors?

Creating an IDE? Use the Visual Studio 2008 shell as your base.

Why not make ASP.NET Web Matrix shared source?

Get Office 2007 FREE until Feb. 26, 2007

My first look at VS'05 Team Edition for Software Testers

Visual Studio 2005 Add-In: Get the total number of line of code in your solution

VS '05 & SQL '05 Express Editions Available Now FREE!

Configure Visual Studio 2005 for 'Classic' ASP syntax highlighting and intellisense

Get Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005 Free!

Is Visual Studio 2005 divine?

Four ways to get your hands on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2!!

You can order a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 for FREE!!

Visual Studio 'Whidbey' 2005 ship date slips again...

WSE 2.0 Service Pack 3 Released

Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 Released

Latest Visual Studio 2005 Release Info

Minimize Microsoft Outlook to the System Tray

I just got Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 (Whidbey)

Web Based Alternative to SQL Enterprise Manager

MSN WebMessenger

OpenOffice - Fee MS-Office alternative

Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Automation

Paint.NET - This thing is like MS-Paint on steroids

Get Visual Basic .NET 2003 for FREE!!

Technology

The Technology is NOT Important

Software is Written FOR PEOPLE

Why Companies Should Contribute to Open Source

Software is like Automobiles and has a lot to learn

TDD: Testable is most important

Tools Don't Make You Great

Games and Facebook are Cool but Boring Software Runs the World

Apple Watch NOT Insanely Great, Not Yet

Public Domain or at least Open Source Licensing Eventually

Programming is the Reading and Writing of the Future

Psychology of Software and its Users

Automation is Essential

Do Trust and Faith belong in Software Development? Not Really!

All Information Workers are NOT Equal or Even Approximate!

Technology to Watch in 2011 and Beyond

The Future of Location: You Haven't Seen Nothing Yet!

Software Basics: What are Databases and Data Access Layers, and How do they relate to Web Services?

Windows speech recognition saves the day!

Internet Explorer 6, wont you ever die?!

I Still Believe in Programming Language Independence

Free the Airwaves! FCC vote on 'white spaces' scheduled for Nov. 4!

New Touchless SDK brings Multi-Touch using a WebCam

Medical Technology - Robotic Assisted Surgery

Software Development Meme - How I got started programming

15% Off Motorola.com Promo/Coupon Code (PASS_11805)

Software Development = Logical Creativity

Ultimate Mac vs. PC - Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

Real Estate - The Search That Should Be.

US Cellular is dicontinuing the Motorola v323i, but you can still buy it from Motorola!

Patterns: Fluent Interface - make your code easier to read

Parallel FX Library: Optimize your code for Multi-Core machines

Could WiFi be used to cook food?

Want to eliminate DRM? Just Boycott all DRM protected content.

HD-DVD: A DMCA Protected Number??

Move.com hires wife of Google VP of Marketing

Apple iPhone has been confirmed, but functionaly similar to Windows Mobile Phone

An Open Source Virtual World like Second Life

FBI to get veto power over PC software?

PHP is easy to learn.

Happy 10th birthday Windows 95!

Is it really Microsoft's fault?

Giving your application a Plugin based architecture is easier than it sounds...

Hitachi's New Perpendicular Recording Technology involves some bits that dance to the music

AutoUpdate BIOS/Firmware?

Mainstream support for Visual Basic 6.0 will end March 31

Regular Expressions are pretty neato...

What do Linux, MacOS and Windows all have in Common??

AntiMatter is a reality: not just for Trekkies!

Is Planning and Testing really that important in Software Development???

Prevent Windows Kernel From Using The Page File (PagingExecutive Function)

True Programming Language Independent IDE

HVD: Holographic Versatile Disc

Create your very own Supercomputer with MPICH

Suspect in AltaVista hacking case works at Microsoft

XAML is like HTML for Windows Applications!

Internet Explorer

Download.Jet Internet Explorer Vulnerability

ASP.NET

Using MiniProfiler with SqlDataSource ASP.NET WebForms Control

Mocking HttpRequestBase.ServerVariables using Moq

IronJSMVC: Script ASP.NET MVC in JavaScript using IronJS

ASP.NET MVC Themes: 3 different theming methods

MvcXaml - Images from XAML within ASP.NET MVC Application

HTML5 Day 4: Add Drop Down Menu to ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Template using CSS and jQuery

HTML5 Day 2: Upgrade ASP.NET MVC 2 Site Template to HTML5

MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC

Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control

A Simple ScriptManager for ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC: Implement Theme Folders using a Custom ViewEngine

ASP.NET AJAX: Create a JavaScript Component with Events

Custom Themes in ASP.NET MVC Updated for Preview 5

How To Setup Custom Theme Support In ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 using a Custom ViewEngine

How To Use ASP.NET MVC in Website rather than Web Application Project

ASP.NET: Fix for WebParts + UrlRewriting/UrlMapping Issue

Web.Maps.VE 2.0 Released - ASP.NET Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control

Bing Maps ASP.NET: Web.Maps.VE v1.0 Update, v2.0 Coming Soon

ASP.NET 3.5: Create AJAX Extender Controls using the ExtenderControl base class

Virtual Earth + ASP.NET AJAX Now Fixed in Safari

ASP.NET: Create AJAX Server Controls using the ScriptControl base class

Some ASP.NET AJAX Tips and Tricks

Virtual Earth Plus ASP.NET AJAX Breaks In Safari!

Virtual Earth: Dynamically Load InfoBox Using ASP.NET AJAX

Getting Started with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX

Google Charts API: an ASP.NET 2.0 Server Control

Cryptographic Extensions for Microsoft AJAX Extensions Framework

Subsite Rewriting HttpModule for ASP.NET

ASP.NET 2.0: RewritePath breaks HyperLink's ImageUrl in App_Theme file when path with slash is rewritten

ASP.NET Forums is gone and Community Server's not free

ASP.NET AJAX: Extensions to standard JavaScript base types

ASP.NET AJAX: Use 'custom' objects as Extender Control Properties

Learn ASP.NET Provider Model By Example via BlogEngine.NET

AjaxControlToolkit TabContainer: TabPanel.Visible='False' should not display header text

Why not make ASP.NET Web Matrix shared source?

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.0 Alpha - ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Control

ASP.NET: Add Template Support to your User Controls

ASP.NET: Extend BoundField Control - Add MultiLine support

VirtualPathProvider: Store .ASPX and .HTM files for your application in xml file or database

I Found a bug in the Rating control in the Atlas Control Toolkit

IIS7: Better Url Mapping support, well not yet...

ASP.NET 2.0: v0.02 of my Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control

ASP.NET Atlas is full of JavaScript goodness

ASP.NET 2.0: Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control - PietschSoft.VE3 v0.01

ASP.NET 2.0: Place JavaScript inside the Page.Header

What I've been up to lately: JavaScript, AJAX, Virtual Earth and WebParts

ASP.NET 2.0: It's extremely easy to add Ajax support using 'Atlas'

ASP.NET: Registration of Controls in Web.Config

ASP.NET: Maintain Scroll Position On Postback

ASP.NET: The secret App_Offline.htm file

ASP.NET 2.0: 'Atlas' now has a Go-Live license

ASP.NET: Use VB.NET and C# within the App_Code folder

ASP.NET Development Server: Run application on Root

ASP.NET: How to get a specific ConnectionString from the Web.Config by name

ASP.NET Client Callbacks inside a User Control

ASP.NET 2.0: URL Mapping with RegEx Support

Bink.nu to use SQL Server 2005 x64 Edition and ASP.NET 2.0 x64!

Use ASP.NET Web Parts and Membership stuff with SQL Server 2000

URL Mapping for ASP.NET 1.1

ASP.NET 2.0: Rewriting URL Paths just got a whole lot easier

Why can't IIS implicitly share ASP Session state with ASP.NET??

How do you call a Console application from ASP.NET and get the results??

Host ASP.NET Web Applications on an XBox

Open Source

Why Companies Should Contribute to Open Source

jsQuizEngine - lightweight javascript quiz engine

Public Domain or at least Open Source Licensing Eventually

jHash v2.0 Released: Now with Routing Support!

4 Reasons Why Virtual Router is Superior to Connectify

jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash

Virtual Router Project – Turn any Windows 7 PC into a Wireless Access Point / Hot Spot

MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC

jHtmlArea – Adding Custom Toolbar Buttons

jHtmlArea 0.6.0 Update with Improved Functionality

jHtmlArea - The all NEW HTML WYSIWYG Editor for jQuery

Simple Port Scanner Written in VB.NET 2003/2008

A Free Open Source Ribbon Control for Windows Forms!

VEToolkit: Virtual Earth Toolkit Open Source Project

dotNetExt - .NET Extension Method Library - v0.1 Beta Released

LINQ to JavaScript: Update Release v1.01 With More Functionality

LINQ to JavaScript (JSLINQ) Open Source Project Launched!

LunchTimeCoder.ServiceMonitor v1.1 Released

LunchTimeCoder: Windows Service Monitor that runs in the System Tray

LunchTimeCoder.AutoSlideShow v1.05 - some small enhancements

LunchTimeCoder Day 1: AutoSlideShow - JavaScript Automatic SlideShow Class

Announcing the LunchTimerCoder.com Initiative

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.1 Released

PietschSoft.VE3 is now on CodePlex

ASP.NET 2.0: Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control - PietschSoft.VE3 v0.01

OpenOffice - Fee MS-Office alternative

JavaScript

JavaScript Fundamentals: Variables, Arrays, and Loops

JavaScript: Remove Specific Items from Array

Loop through JavaScript Arrays using for, forEach, and map functions

JavaScript: Convert String to Number

Basics of JavaScript Class Inheritance

Call Functions in JavaScript

JavaScript Tips: Parse QueryString to Dictionary

jQuery Basics: Is Element Hidden or Visible?

JavaScript Basics: String Contains Function

JavaScript Basics: Url / Page Navigation via document.location

JavaScript Basics: How to create a Dictionary with Key/Value pairs

jsQuizEngine - lightweight javascript quiz engine

jHash v2.0 Released: Now with Routing Support!

IronJSMVC: Script ASP.NET MVC in JavaScript using IronJS

JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event - Show “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” Message

Tag Editor Field using jQuery similar to StackOverflow

Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4

jHash: Easily Manage Browser History / window.location.hash

HTML5 Day 3: Detecting HTML5 Support via JavaScript

Easily Convert Between HTML and RGB Colors using JavaScript

JavaScript: Easily 'Extend' an Object/Element

Creating Ruby-like 'Extensions' in JavaScript

Building JavaScript / HTML based Applications using Adobe Air for FREE

Bing Maps Shapes (VEShape) to WKT (Well-Known-Text) and Back using JavaScript

ASP.NET AJAX: Create a JavaScript Component with Events

JavaScript: Mixing OOP and Event Driven Programming

JavaScript: Null Coalesce using the || Operator

JavaScript Prototypal Inheritence Explained in Simple Terms

Silverlight and JavaScript Interop Basics

Silverlight: Load JavaScript from Embedded Resource and Execute Within Page

Simple JavaScript Object Reflection API (.NET Style)

JavaScript ForEach Equivalent

JavaScript Function Tips and Tricks

Bing Maps: Draw a Circle Radius Around a Lat/Long Point

Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

LINQ to JavaScript Interactive SDK Now Available!

LINQ to JavaScript: Update Release v1.01 With More Functionality

LINQ to JavaScript (JSLINQ) Open Source Project Launched!

JavaScript int.TryParse Equivalent

Web.Maps.VE - Virtual Earth Without JavaScript, plus .NET 3.5 Support just added!

Safari 3 for Windows: Enable JavaScript Debugging

JavaScript: Add Search Engine Keyword Highlight Support to your site with ease

ASP.NET AJAX: Extensions to standard JavaScript base types

LunchTimeCoder.AutoSlideShow v1.05 - some small enhancements

Creating Namespaces in JavaScript is actually rather simple...

LunchTimeCoder Day 1: AutoSlideShow - JavaScript Automatic SlideShow Class

Add iPhone style flicking support using JavaScript

JavaScript/AJAX Example 1 - Load File Asynchronously and Display within TextArea

ASP.NET Atlas is full of JavaScript goodness

ASP.NET 2.0: Place JavaScript inside the Page.Header

JavaScript: Loop through all elements in a form

What I've been up to lately: JavaScript, AJAX, Virtual Earth and WebParts

Windows Longhorn Glass Look DHTML

JavaScript: How to get value from nested form in iframe?

Windows 95

Happy 10th birthday Windows 95!

Windows Vista

Cheap PC 2009 - Custom Built PC under $500 that includes Windows Vista Home Premium

Vista Sidebar Gadget for Pandora Radio

Intel Core i7 920 - Initial Thoughts, Overclocking and Windows Vista

Free Vista SP1 Support through March 18, 2009

Mount ISO Images in Vista x64

Dec. '07: Are the latest Vista updates full of error? Or is it just me?

XBox Live Gamercard Vista Sidebar Gadget

Vista Experience Update: Disk Defragmenter Revisited

Windows Vista Device Drivers for Belkin F5D7000 Wireless Network Card

Cheap PC - Build a Vista Premium Ready system for under $500 including the OS

Setting Up Ubuntu with virtualization on Vista x64

Vista Experience Update: Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Vista Experience Update: Windows Vista x64 runs 32-bit Internet Explorer by Default

Vista Experience Update: DVD Backup Programs

64-bit Vista no longer available on MSDN?

Vista Experience Update: Vista automatically defragments your hard drives for you

I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64 installed in a dual boot with WinXP Pro

I now have my key for Vista Ultimate

Windows Vista is currently available on MSDN

Vista Beta 2: Not my Primary OS anymore

Windows Vista Beta 2: installed on my primary machine

A couple cool WinXP TaskBar enhancement tools

Windows Vista: Latest Screenshots Revealed

C#

Code Tip: Simpler Performance Timer Logging in C#

5 Common C# tasks in Apple Swift Programming Language

Basic Comparison of Functions in C# and Apple Swift Programming Language

Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax

What “var” really means in C#–It’s not “variant”

Mocking HttpRequestBase.ServerVariables using Moq

Design Patterns: Basics of Dependency Injection

SQLinq: Use LINQ to generate Ad-Hoc, strongly typed SQL queries

Unit Testing with SqlException in .NET: Only with help from Reflection

Entity Framework Tips and Tricks: Use GetObjectByKey When Querying a Single Entity

MvcXaml - Images from XAML within ASP.NET MVC Application

Odd .NET Namespace Scoping Causes Compile-Time Exception

Resolve IP Address And Host Name From MAC Address using C# and Windows ARP Utility

C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in Windows

C#: Flash Window in Taskbar via Win32 FlashWindowEx

A Couple VB.NET Language Tips for C# Developers

Place a StackOverflow badge on your website

C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

C#: Enhance Enums using Extension Methods

.NET: Why aren't Private Abstract methods allowed?

Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

Parallel FX Library: Optimize your code for Multi-Core machines

.NET 3.5: How to Convert from one TimeZone to another

C#: Give your object a Default Indexer Property

C#/VB.NET: Extension Methods

C# .NET: Convert System.Drawing.Color to HTML color

Scrape Geocodes from Google Maps w/ C#

ASP.NET: Use VB.NET and C# within the App_Code folder

Virtual Earth

Microsoft Killed the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control

Prototype of VEToolkit + ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Component Checked In

MIX'09: Virtual Earth Silverlight CTP Session Online for Viewing

I'm starting a Virtual Earth Developer Resource list

Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP Teaser and Some Initial Thoughts

VEToolkit - Virtual Earth Toolkit v6.2.012509.1053 Released!

VEToolkit: Virtual Earth Toolkit Open Source Project

Virtual Earth 6.2 (Bing Maps) JavaScript Intellisense Helper Released

Virtual Earth Staging Environment Launched

Web.Maps.VE 2.0 Released - ASP.NET Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control

Virtual Earth: Get Center Lat/Long When In Birdseye or Oblique Map Style

My Virtual Earth Interview on The Thirsty Developer podcast

Virtual Earth + ASP.NET AJAX Now Fixed in Safari

Virtual Earth: Restrict Map to Specified Viewable Area

Virtual Earth Resources

Virtual Earth: Center Map to Shape during OnClick Event

I am now a Virtual Earth MVP!

Virtual Earth Plus ASP.NET AJAX Breaks In Safari!

Virtual Earth v2 Being Depricated March 31st

Virtual Earth: Calculate Distance of User-Drawn Polyline

Virtual Earth: Dynamically Load InfoBox Using ASP.NET AJAX

Getting Started with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX

Web.Maps.VE - Virtual Earth Without JavaScript, plus .NET 3.5 Support just added!

Virtual Earth 6: Align Mini Map in the Top Right corner of the Map

Virtual Earth: Convert Road Map Style to Shaded Like maps.live.com does

Virtual Earth: SSL Support

Virtual Earth: Getting Started - Adding a basic Map to a page

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: GetDirections breaks when Start and End Address are the same

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: ShowSwitch parameter of LoadMap method no longer works

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: Zoom buttons in wrong place with multiple maps on the same page

Official Release of Simplovation and Web.Maps.VE!

PietschSoft.VE: Is it Dead? What about Ajax and Virtual Earth v5?

MS Virtual Earth v5.0 Released

PietschSoft.VE mentioned during a Microsoft Webcast on Virtual Earth yesterday

PietschSoft.VE got mentioned on DotNetRocks! episode #221

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.1 Released

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.0 Alpha - ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Control

Virtual Earth v4 is out now with 3D maps!

MS Virtual Earth: New version on the way!

PietschSoft.VE3 v0.05 Released

PietschSoft.VE3 is now on CodePlex

PietschSoft.VE3 v0.03 plus Demo site!

ASP.NET 2.0: v0.02 of my Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control

ASP.NET 2.0: Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control - PietschSoft.VE3 v0.01

What I've been up to lately: JavaScript, AJAX, Virtual Earth and WebParts

GIS

CanvasMap Prototype = HTML5 Canvas + Mapping

2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List

Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags

Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute

Bing Maps JavaScript Intellisense Helper Now Available as Nuget Package

New “Earthquakes in Last 7 Days” Bing Map App

Geomap Project - HTML Extensions for Rendering Map Displays

Bing Maps Ajax 7: Add a Simple Mini Map

Bing Maps Ajax 7: Add Custom Navigation Bar Buttons using jQuery

Bing Maps Ajax 7: Simple Pushpin Animation via Extension to Microsoft.Maps

Bing Maps Ajax 7: Adding InfoBox Support via Extension to Microsoft.Maps

The Future of Location: You Haven't Seen Nothing Yet!

Resizing and Auto-Scaling Pushpin in Bing Maps Silverlight

Free Geographic / Geo-Spatial Data Sources Link List

Bing Maps JS: Calculate Area of Circle and Draw Circle on Map

OpenStreetMap: Get FREE Web Mapping with Road Maps for your Applications

VEToolkit: Virtual Earth Toolkit Open Source Project

Virtual Earth 6.2 (Bing Maps) JavaScript Intellisense Helper Released

Bing Maps: Polygon Search - Is Point Within Polygon?

Plot ZipCode Boundaries on a Map: Part 2 - Import Zip Code (U.S. Census ZCTA) Data Into A Database

Plot ZipCode Boundaries on a Map: Part 1 - Making sense of U.S. Census ZCTA ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) files

Virtual Earth Staging Environment Launched

Web.Maps.VE 2.0 Released - ASP.NET Virtual Earth Mapping Server Control

Virtual Earth: Get Center Lat/Long When In Birdseye or Oblique Map Style

Virtual Earth: Restrict Map to Specified Viewable Area

Virtual Earth: Center Map to Shape during OnClick Event

Bing Maps: Draw a Circle Radius Around a Lat/Long Point

Virtual Earth: Calculate Distance of User-Drawn Polyline

Calculate Distance Between Geocodes in C# and JavaScript

Web.Maps.VE - Virtual Earth Without JavaScript, plus .NET 3.5 Support just added!

Virtual Earth 6: Align Mini Map in the Top Right corner of the Map

Virtual Earth: Convert Road Map Style to Shaded Like maps.live.com does

Virtual Earth: SSL Support

Virtual Earth: Getting Started - Adding a basic Map to a page

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: GetDirections breaks when Start and End Address are the same

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: ShowSwitch parameter of LoadMap method no longer works

Virtual Earth 6 Bug: Zoom buttons in wrong place with multiple maps on the same page

Official Release of Simplovation and Web.Maps.VE!

PietschSoft.VE: Is it Dead? What about Ajax and Virtual Earth v5?

MS Virtual Earth v5.0 Released

PietschSoft.VE mentioned during a Microsoft Webcast on Virtual Earth yesterday

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.1 Released

PietschSoft.VE v2.0.0 Alpha - ASP.NET AJAX Virtual Earth Mapping Control

Virtual Earth v4 is out now with 3D maps!

MS Virtual Earth: New version on the way!

PietschSoft.VE3 v0.05 Released

PietschSoft.VE3 is now on CodePlex

PietschSoft.VE3 v0.03 plus Demo site!

ASP.NET 2.0: v0.02 of my Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control

Scrape Geocodes from Google Maps w/ C#

ASP.NET 2.0: Virtual Earth v3 Ajax Server Control - PietschSoft.VE3 v0.01

What I've been up to lately: JavaScript, AJAX, Virtual Earth and WebParts

Silverlight

Step By Step: Bing Maps Silverlight and an Out Of Browser (OOB) Application

Silverlight: Embed IronRuby within XAML Part 2

Silverlight: Embed IronRuby/DLR Scripting within XAML using IValueConverter and Custom UserControl

Intro to IronRuby/DLR Scripting in C# Silverlight 4 Application

Use New Bing Maps Road Imagery In Silverlight Map Control (Unofficially and Unsupported)

Silverlight Bing Maps: Draw Circle Around a Latitude/Longitude Location

Display Google Maps Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control

Resizing and Auto-Scaling Pushpin in Bing Maps Silverlight

Draggable Pushpins using Bing Maps Silverlight Control

Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Throws 'Project File ... Not Found' Error When Compiling in Visual Studio 2010 RC

Prototype of OpenStreetMap Silverlight Control using DeepEarth and Bing Maps SDK

Display OpenStreetMap Imagery using Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1

Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Using MouseClick Event To Add 'Pushpins'

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers!

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map

CTP: Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code

CTP: Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight CTP Map Control SDK

Virtual Earth Silverlight Control CTP Teaser and Some Initial Thoughts

Silverlight: Client-Side Database via LINQ and Isolated Storage

Silverlight Isolated Storage File/Directory Location

Silverlight and JavaScript Interop Basics

Silverlight: Load JavaScript from Embedded Resource and Execute Within Page

Mono: WinForms finally API complete and Moonlight v1.0 is released

PasswordTextBox for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Working with HTML DOM in Silverlight 2 Beta 1 using the Bridge Pattern

Show a MessageBox in Silverlight 2 Beta 1

Opening Client-Side Files using Silverlight

Silverlight: Anatomy of an .XAP file

WI .NET User Group - 7/10/2007 - Silverlight!! buzz....

Bing Maps

Awarded 2012 Microsoft MVP - Bing Maps

2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List

Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags

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Bing Maps JS: Calculate Area of Circle and Draw Circle on Map

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Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight Control v1.0

MvcMaps Preview 1 – A Unified Bing/Google Maps API for ASP.NET MVC

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Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Plot/Edit Pushpin data via a ChildWindow

Bing Maps for Enterprise (formerly Virtual Earth) Licensing FAQ

Bing Maps Shapes (VEShape) to WKT (Well-Known-Text) and Back using JavaScript

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Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Using MouseClick Event To Add 'Pushpins'

Bing Maps for Enterprise Developer Resources

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Overlay OpenStreetMap, OpenAerialMap and Yahoo Map Imagery using Custom Tile Layers!

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Using Tile Layers to Overlay Custom Map Imagery

Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Adding Media (Images, Video, etc.) to the Map

CTP: Bing Maps Silverlight CTP: Basics of Adding Polygons and Polylines using XAML and Code

CTP: Getting Started with Bing Maps Silverlight CTP Map Control SDK

Bing Maps: Modify the Opacity of an Existing Custom Tile Layer

VEToolkit - Virtual Earth Toolkit v6.2.012509.1053 Released!

Bing Maps: Polygon Search - Is Point Within Polygon?

Bing Maps ASP.NET: Web.Maps.VE v1.0 Update, v2.0 Coming Soon

Bing Maps: Draw a Circle Radius Around a Lat/Long Point

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