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  • Local maps
    by Simon Hart
    8 Replies
    Last post by Duncan Garratt
      • I have a requirement to display a map using lat/long coordinates on an XP Embedded machine but not using the internet. Does anyone know of a library (similar to Microsoft's Mappont product) that works locally with no internet/network dependency -- Simon Hart http://simonrhart.blogspot.com
  • What's missing in the VE5 SDK Docs?
    by Derek Chan
    14 Replies
    Last post by beerthirty7
      • So far here are some useful methods that I've found have not been documented in the SDK yet: 1) VEShape.Show() - Shows the shape 2) VEShape.Hide() - Hides the shape 3) VEMap.GetShapeLayerByIndex(index) - where index is an integer, you can now loops through all your shape layers to find out exactly what is stuck on the map. If you directly add shapes to the map without using layers, it is added to
  • Blue screen
    by Bubbs
    3 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • I'm in Virtual Earth looking at my residence when my screen goes blue with tech info: OX8FBOEE9O, OXOOOOOOOO, OX8FBOEE9O, OXOOOOOOOO. How do I fix this Bubbs
  • Vista basic and webcam..
    by Peter White
    1 Replies
    Last post by adalry01
      • I have recently got a new Vista basic computer, I am not computer literate like many on here. My problem is that when people offer me to accept thier cameras there is no problem but as soon as i offer mine and they accept then not only will the camera shut down it also kicks me of the internet...The camera is a Logitech Quickcam Express. Any help would be very mch appreciated.
  • Mutual SSL Authentication
    by RichieBoy
    1 Replies
    Last post by Bill Zissimopoulos (MSFT)
      • I am trying to setup access to Live Contacts using mutual SSL authentication as I don't want to have to store the domainauthtoken for each user. I have installed a valid certificate on my site but I'm unsure of the steps I need to take to configure IIS and the code I need to associate the certificate with the request. Can anyone on the dev team help please The documentation on MSDN doesnt explain
  • Where can I download the Virtual Earth control?
    by RickLH
    9 Replies
    Last post by Brian_Flood
      • I'm trying to make a demo project for management and they'd like to see the Virtual Earth control in action. Sadly, I appear to be too thick to figure out how to download the control. I've found the CHM for the SDK and sample code but no control. Where and how does one acquire said beast
  • Explorer is a great idea
    by R1E
    5 Replies
    Last post by Steven Wilssens MSFT
      • I am glad this feature is included in popfly.
  • Center a Map Question (ASP.NET)
    by GuyD
    1 Replies
    Last post by Derrick
      • I'm new to Virtual Earth and have a question related to placing maps. When using Virtual Earth "out-of-the-box" standard map we get a default map from the US. When I want to show, when loading a webpage, the European map or a map for aparticular country, is the only way to achieve this by using tha latitude/longitude coordinates Or are there options to enter eg Euope, Germany, ...
  • Inspiration Tour
    by Th3one
    1 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • I'm a student at stafforshire University, UK...just been to the Microsoft inspiration tour and I'm very interested in getting an invite to the popfly alpha. This request should probably have been sent to the two guys doing the tour, but I cant for the life of me remember their blog addresses. Cheers, James M, Staffs Uni (MSc Computer Science: Computer Security)
  • Windows Messenger won't open...but it's running ???
    by shmiddy
    5 Replies
    Last post by shmiddy
      • So when i try to open windows live messenger, it shows as it is running in my "windows task manager", but nothing opens; no icon in the tool bar no windows open If i click it again, another msnmsgr.exe appears in my windows task manager. Every time i try to re-open it, another one starts, but nothing happens I've tried re-installing it, I have the latest version, I've tried restarting my
  • Add HTML in Advanced view of a block in Mashup Creator?
    by DonG2
    4 Replies
    Last post by DonG2
      • Is it possible to add HTML in the Advanced view mode of a block in the Mashup Creator For example, if I wanted the User Input block to display the prompts and button centered in the window. Thanks!
  • invite please
    by Kerry Henderson
    2 Replies
    Last post by Aaron Brethorst MSFT
      • Hi, can someone invite me please, henderson795@msn.com Thanks
  • Flash player vs.Silverlight
    by Teyo
    3 Replies
    Last post by bilal omar
      • Hello to all, I wait for somebody understands Spanish; gustaria to know if I can install in the PC Flash to player and Silverlight to me or you would caosaran some problem when reproducing content of some page Web. Thanks
  • Simple example of shading zip-code boundaries using Virtual Earth
    by mberseth
    10 Replies
    Last post by mberseth
      • As a proof of concept for a recent project I was working on, I created a sample application using Virtual Earth to plot and shade zip-code boundaries. I thought it might be useful for those looking for samples ... http://mattberseth.com/blog/2007/05/plotting_zipcode_boundaries_us.html I was impressed at how little code this took. Once again Microsoft does all of the heavy lifting for
  • Embedding - can we get more control?
    by Crile
    10 Replies
    Last post by AndyS
      • Is there documentation for the <iframe> code that is generated by the Embed It link Specifically, is there a way to get a larger block I see that the generated tag always seems to end with ".small" . Can we change that and get different sizes Also, are there other ways to use the mashups other than in iframes Thanks - this is a fun tool.
  • advertisement results api
    by nealbvm
    3 Replies
    Last post by Jeff Dillon - MSFT
      • Is there an advertisement text results api that produces relevant text ads based on a keyword I would like to sign up with microsoft so that when I have my live search api fully functional, I would like to implement the text ad results as well that will show up on the right hand side of the screen in the same way live.com works. How do I sign up with Microsoft to gain access to the text ad results
  • Custom Live Messenger bots
    by Paul Stovell
    0 Replies
    Last post by Paul Stovell
      • I notice on the robot invaders page there are a number of SDK's that can be used to create custom bots: http://www.robotinvaders.com/main/About.aspx As this post mentions, there are a number of issues with these SDK's: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=412276&SiteID=1 Questions: What other SDK's are on the market for creating custom, self-hosted bots using nothing but
  • Rock'n'Roll dancing letters in time to midi
    by Snapafun
    5 Replies
    Last post by Snapafun
      • Thought this idea would be a good tester for Popfly. Take my acronym " Snapafun " and have it dance to rock'n'roll music. A. Is it possible B. Where do I go to get started Basically, a webpage that is alive and in party mode when you first arrive there. Have access to the mid tune, mamadont.mid, that has a great consistant beat that I could use. See three steps required here: 1. Get fo
  • I am unable to view complete map in second time
    by Hi&amp;#33;
    5 Replies
    Last post by Hi!
      • Hi friends, I am facing a problem that full map is not viewable in second time. Only a part of map is seen. When I delete cookies,temp internet files. Then it is visible. Or, when I am making changes in my JSP in which I have implemented Map, it is showing complete map. Plz suggest me solution.
  • Selecting pushpins using polygon or other selector
    by elite150
    3 Replies
    Last post by Derek Chan
      • Is there any way to use the polygon tool or another selection mechanism to select a group of pushpins I would like to plot a lot of pushpins and select a subset of those pushpins. The would need to iterate the subset of pushpins and do some more work. Is that possible at all with Virtual Earth
  • Clickable Pins
    by mhodder
    6 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • Hi, I have a question regarding clickable pins There is code for adding a single clickable pin, but I have code that currently adds a number of pins to a VE map. I want the user to be able to click on any of the pins so I can retrieve some data about the pin clicked. Also some of the other post mention that this can only be done on Mozilla but I need IE. Any help would be great!
  • page turner resolution
    by Googleman81
    14 Replies
    Last post by Googleman81
      • im trying to do something with the page turner, but i always get quite grainy pictures. does not matter what resolution the input pictures are (or at least it seems like that) and if i try to add a picture that has text in it, it ends up being totally small and unreadable because of the grainyness. Any ideas, suggestions or modifications on how to get clearer pictures with the page turner would be
  • RegExp block output
    by jillefloridor
    3 Replies
    Last post by jianxu
      • Hi, I'm trying to filter out the first word of a <description> item in a news feed. For this I created the regular expression ^(\w)+ , which matches the first word. I used the RegExp block, with the getMatches operation. However, when I connect this block with a News Reader block (just to see the output), there seems to be no output at all.. I tried to create a named gro
  • What is Popfly?...~
    by &amp;#126;&amp;#42;&am
    3 Replies
    Last post by Arnaud Weil
      • aiight...so i kno Popfly is a mashup...wut is a mashup and wut is Popfly...what is the meaning of it ...i see it's by microsoft and it has an explorer so is it taking over Internet Explorer ...~
  • Urgent - Handling Map Click event
    by Mukund R
    10 Replies
    Last post by Mukund R
      • Hi all, I have a strange requirement. I have a small Virtual map appearing on one of my pages. Now on its click I want to open a popup window which will be a bigger version of the small map displayed. For this, I have done following map = new VEMap( 'VirtualMap' ); try {map.LoadMap( new VELatLong(latitude, longitude), 8 , 'r' , false );} catch (err){} map.AttachEvent(