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  • To show multiple Routing distance using Virtual Earth
    by sathish_indian
    4 Replies
    Last post by sathish_indian
      • Hi, I am using Routing in VE. I have an area name under which few employees will be listed. If I select the Area and Address, a pop-up should display each of the Emp Name and his distance to the specified address. Eg. David - 45.3 KM Rahul - 25.8 KM. How to do this in Virtual Earth. I am passing the Latitude and longitude values of each employee to map.Rout
  • Get lat/lon of pushpins in map extents
    by jchaney88
    5 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • If I set a series of pushpins throughout the US and a user zooms in to a particular area on the map - is there a way for the user to click a button (start an event) that would give the user all the lat/lon of ONLY the pushpins that are in the area (extents of the map) which they are zoomed into I.E. - I set 500 pushpins across the US and the user zooms into NY and there are 10 pushpins in NY - how
  • Out of Memory
    by busternelson
    5 Replies
    Last post by busternelson
      • Hi ppl, I have a web browser in a .NET C# application that calls a Virtual Earth Map. When i minimize the application, it show a message box with an error : "Out of Memory at Line 2". However, i delete or i change the line 2 of html file and the error is the same. Is it any think that i should do to solve this problem Good Year buster
  • Lat long from FindLoc()
    by builtbikes
    3 Replies
    Last post by Derek Chan
      • I have a very simple page that displays a map and has a search field on it using: function FindLoc() { map.FindLocation(document.getElementById('txtWhere').value); } Is there any way to capture the results from the search Are they returned in Lat Long I would like to some how get the lat and long from the search results. Thanks!
  • Ability to restrict users?
    by Dave Searle
    2 Replies
    Last post by Dave Searle
      • Suppose I only want a handful of users (maybe up to 100) of the total number of LiveID users to access my site. Is there anyway to restrict unwanted users from accessing my site Dave
  • Tell me about Photosphere
    by Jamie Thomson
    4 Replies
    Last post by Jamie Thomson
      • Hi all, I don't have an invite yet so I'm having to discover stuff by asking Qs....for the time being... I saw Suzanne's 3-minute demo video and was interested in the photosphere thing. Does it only display photos I was thinking that'd be a cool mechanism for displaying tags from my company's blog site ( http://blogs.conchango.com/tags/default.aspx ). A 3D tag-cloud as it were. An
  • Reading Multiple long. and lat points and plotting on VE
    by athnetix
    4 Replies
    Last post by athnetix
      • Hi .. I'm new to VE and would like the best way and how to read and pass VE a list of Pin Points of long. and lat. thru asp.net. My database of points will be in either an MS/SQL or Access database. 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
  • Combine Accounts
    by Exempo
    5 Replies
    Last post by Alex Media
      • Quick question, Don't know if this is possible or maybe a future enhancement. I have a live id that i use for messenger and spaces. It is my primary id; however, I do not have it set up for hotmail since it is an email account for another domain. I have another live id that i use for email only (hotmail). Is there a way to link the live id for email up to my main live id so that on live.com
  • Web Application Single Sign-On
    by Fernando Karnagi
    3 Replies
    Last post by Alex Media
      • Dear All, I am having a Java Web Application project that requires integration with Windows Live Mail. One of my approach is by using Windows Live Web Authentication. I have downloaded the sample code for Java, and I can run it. However it is not what I am expecting. I am actually expecting that the sign-in takes place in my application, not in Windows Live itself. Has anyone ever experience this
  • Windows Live Messenger eating all my memory
    by Pat Krimson
    2 Replies
    Last post by J-Thread
      • A couple of days ago (only after a few hours working at my PC) my system began telling me I didn't have enough Virtual Memory although I have 1 GB of RAM installed. In Process Manager it showed a whopping 2,4 GB of RAM in use !!! Never had this problem before, so I started to investigate what could be the reason. Began scanning for virusses, spyware, trojans,... all with no result (tried almost ev
  • Error message on VELatLong
    by dhoenig
    3 Replies
    Last post by Keith Kinnan
      • I keep getting the following error message. The only change has been I switched to version 5 from 4. Why would it do this gLocs is an array full of VELatLong objects. map.SetMapView(gLocs); <-- Fails on this line. "Invalid argument; input argument 'veLatLong' is not a valid 'VELatLong' value."
  • Localization support for 13 languages?
    by Magnus Naslund
    5 Replies
    Last post by crpietschmann
      • On the Virtual Earth site it is stated that the API has support for 13 languages. Does anybody know what kind of support this is What can you get in these languages http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/products/geooverview.mspx Utilizing MapPoint Web Service¡¯s SOAP API, Virtual Earth platform customers can utilize maps with street-level detail for 67 countries/regions in 13 languages.
  • Determining the unique message ID
    by Gouffe
    4 Replies
    Last post by Gouffe
      • Hi, I'm using the live alerts web service and I'm wondering if it's possible to determine the last free unique message ID. Thanks for your answers, Gouffe
  • Map not loading in Firefox 2+
    by noobzilla
    3 Replies
    Last post by noobzilla
      • I'm catching the following error in Firefox 2+ when calling LoadMap(): "TypeError: this.InitializeMap() is not a function" this.InitializeMap() is called in the VE api. Does anyone know of a workaround try { // FF 2.0 fix from MSDN Forums - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=852512&SiteID=1 // Avoids the "Browser does not support SVG or V
  • multiple routes
    by pravin_kr
    8 Replies
    Last post by pravin_kr
      • I have a requirement of plotting two routes on the map. Say from point A to B and then, from point B to C and display total distance and time. The problem is that when i try to plot the second route, the first route disappers. I am able to collect the itinary informations of both these routes, so plotting pushpins for both these routes is possible.Any idea how can i retain the first route driving
  • New to Windows Live Local Maps
    by Tee580057
    9 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • I am new to this and will like to know if you can assist with some questions. I want to use Microsoft Live Local APIs for a mapping solution that will be implemented into my company's internal applications. I will like to know the following before I proceed; How much will it cost to use the APIs. We are looking at an average of 10,000 users and 10% of these will likely want to see a map.
  • Robot Invaders Contest Winners
    by Todd Biggs - Windows Live
    14 Replies
    Last post by shiny zhu
      • It's time to annouce the winners for the Robot Invaders contest. The contest ran from May 15th to September 15th and in the end 53 Messenger bots were accepted as valid entries in the contest ( per the how to compete guidelines ). Each entry to the contest was judge by three judges separately using the Judging Criteria outlined on the How to Compete page and then the judges scores were averaged
  • Sending instructions to AddIn
    by NM156
    5 Replies
    Last post by Jeroen Bransen - J-Thread
      • Is there any way to send some instructions to addin during convrsation I am making a chat bot using dotMSN, and i want it to trigger some functions on client machine messenger addin. Any hints would be very helpful!
  • about colloquis http://localhost???emergency,need help!
    by hyang&amp;#64;masq.com.cn
    5 Replies
    Last post by ºÚ°µÎèÕß
      • we use colloquis V4.2,and we need use web mothed. when we open http://localhose:8054 ,can be ok.but if we use http://192.168.0.1/8054 that't not well. if this version do not support web mothed or we need change other config wait your reply,thank you very much.
  • Can I use the Windows Live Traffic and Mapping features in my .net cf application?
    by Aaron H Bridges
    2 Replies
    Last post by SoulSolutions
      • Is there Windows Live API for Mobile Thanks!
  • how change draft folder
    by starrillo
    2 Replies
    Last post by starrillo
      • Hi! I don't save my draft and recent post in my documents. I review SDK, but I not find nothing help me. Saludos,
  • Custom Disambiguation - results link to what?
    by MatBeard
    2 Replies
    Last post by Derrick
      • I'm trying to do something seemingly simple, but not having much luck. I'm using the example in the Visual SDK for custom disambiguation. After I search for a 'where', the list of possibilities is displayed in my custom disambigiation box, but clicking on one of the results then displays the default disambiguation box with the same results. In the example, each result in the custom
  • VE Maps, personal security, and privacy issues
    by Duncan Garratt
    2 Replies
    Last post by Duncan Garratt
      • Some forms of reverse geocoding in the UK, and other EU countries are illegal under the Data Protection Act here in the UK, and laws of other EU jurisdictions. Basically if personal information such as a name, address, contact telephone number, or other personal information can be derived from a lat/long position, postcode, telephone number, or an area of a map, without having a persons consent
  • RSS + Yahoo Term Extration Multiplicity Problem
    by Kinlan
    1 Replies
    Last post by Kinlan
      • Hi, I have been creating a very simple sample that will use the yahoo term extraction block over an rss feed. Therefore, I have a default RSS block (with the default URL) in, joined up to the Yahoo Term Extration block (with a sentance as the RSS title and the termHelpExtraction as a Custom empty field). My problem is that the term extraction reports the results over and over multipl