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How to Make Virtual Earth 3D Live Forever
Hello all, When we announced that we're "discontinuing investment" in VE3D earlier this year, many...
Date: 08/13/2011
Discontinuing Investment is Such Sweet Sorrow
Hello all, We have just announced that we will be discontinuing investment in VE3D. In the short...
Date: 11/03/2010
Bing Maps 3D fix for Firefox 3.6 released
With the 3.6 release Firefox changed the plugin API which broke Virtual Earth 3D temporarily. To...
Date: 03/29/2010
Custom Clouds
It is possible (and pretty easy) to add your own weather data (based on your own data sources, or...
Date: 01/24/2010
New version of InfoStrat.VE: VE3D in WPF
Goodness for the new year: Have you seen the Microsoft Surface Globe application in the Microsoft...
Date: 01/05/2010
Two good questions
Posting some answers to questions I've gotten recently. Bug in the samples: Kind of silly that I...
Date: 12/08/2009
Installing VE3D without the setup package
In some scenarios it may be desirable to install the VE3D engine without visiting the...
Date: 09/27/2009
Hosting VE3D in native code
Sorry for the glut of posts this week. I hadn't been able to write much, but there were still...
Date: 09/24/2009
GraphicsProxy RenderState
I've gotten a few questions lately about how to do some alpha effects using models, specifically...
Date: 09/22/2009
X File bulk display
I was asked the other day about how to load multiple x file -based models into VE3D without having...
Date: 09/20/2009
Constraining camera movement
Just got a good question: what if I want to prevent the camera from moving outside certain bounds,...
Date: 08/07/2009
Actor data source questions
I just fielded a few good questions via email about actor data sources, and thought it would make a...
Date: 07/26/2009
Bing Maps 3D
As you may be aware, the website changed names to Bing Maps: https://www.bing.com/maps/. The 3D view...
Date: 06/14/2009
Data Format update and reminder
You may recall that I posted about a data format change for the new version. The final switch-over...
Date: 06/09/2009
WMS Data
I was having a discussion with Kurt Guenther from Infusion yesterday on the topic of WMS servers and...
Date: 06/09/2009
Modifying cache location
My, it has been a long time since I posted. I promise I will try to be better. Recently I was asked...
Date: 06/09/2009
Manual Rendering
Folks have really reacted to my mention of manual rendering, so I've made a sample for it. Good...
Date: 04/19/2009
Anisotropic Filtering
Anisotropic has been a bit of a frustration for us because while it is very easy to do (it's really...
Date: 04/19/2009
New Version Released!
Our new version has gone live. Head on over to maps.live.com and click "3D" to upgrade. This release...
Date: 04/09/2009
Data Format Revision
As part of our version update, we are also updating the file format of our 3D buildings. The upside...
Date: 04/06/2009
Logging
At times it can be useful to know when and if errors are occurring in VE3D. When instructed, VE3D...
Date: 04/05/2009
Upcoming new version
Next week we'll be releasing a new version of the control. The focus of the release is on perf and...
Date: 04/01/2009
WPF and VE3D
I do love having a developer community out there. We've had lots of requests for direct WPF...
Date: 03/11/2009
Multitouch in VE3D
Ever since I got a Touchsmart at home I've been very interested in the desktop touch experience, and...
Date: 03/04/2009
Server transition
Hello all, I've had a few emails regarding our files being down this weekend. Sorry I didn't give a...
Date: 03/01/2009
Startup and Host interaction
When the control first starts, there are several stages that need to complete before it is really...
Date: 02/21/2009
Microsoft Photo Calibration Tool
Siddharth Jain, one of the devs on our team, wrote a tool using VE3D to place photos in 3D and save...
Date: 02/11/2009
Documentation!
Due to the outstanding efforts of our team's tech writer, we've produced some lovely help...
Date: 01/25/2009
Camera Tricks
Just a couple camera nuggets to drop today. The code snippets below were all written inside...
Date: 01/14/2009
Busy busy busy...
I haven't posted in quite awhile, as development on the next version has been pretty intense....
Date: 01/11/2009
Information Pop-ups in WinForms
We've had several questions about how to do a pop-up form in WinForms, similar to the one on the...
Date: 11/24/2008
VE3D on a Mac
Parallels, which is a program that allows running Windows software on a Mac, has recently released...
Date: 11/23/2008
Animated Textures
In addition to using dynamic buffers to animate geometry, you can also animate the textures on...
Date: 11/18/2008
Debug Key Shortcuts
There are a few settings in VE3D that you can use for debugging that are turned off by default, but...
Date: 10/29/2008
Actors and DataSources
In this sample, we create a DataSource, which is a class that can be used for large-scale data sets....
Date: 10/27/2008
Camera Control
In this sample, we create a plug-in to move the camera to a random location in the world every time...
Date: 10/22/2008
Terrain Imagery Overlays
There are four ways to add custom imagery to VE3D. The first three involve using built-in classes,...
Date: 10/12/2008
Controlling Time
Today we show a little of the "Time" sample. It demonstrates how to use the concepts of rendering...
Date: 10/05/2008
Current Samples
Here's the newest, most whiz-bang sample set we've got right at the moment. Download The Samples!...
Date: 09/25/2008
New Version of VE3D
You may have noticed that we have not blogged recently, and that’s because we’ve been hard at work...
Date: 09/25/2008
Animation
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....
Date: 07/08/2008
New Intellisense Files
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....
Date: 07/08/2008
Loading a model into VE3D
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....
Date: 05/27/2008
Installing Plug-Ins
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....
Date: 05/01/2008
Creating the most basic Windows Form
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here. The...
Date: 04/19/2008
Geometry
The first thing that most people want to do when playing with the 3D control is add some stuff to...
Date: 04/18/2008
Adding a Virtual Earth 3D Plug-in to your webpage
Note: this entry references code for an older version of VE3D. The newest code samples are here....
Date: 04/11/2008