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Fun with IE Image Filters and Virtual Earth

Internet Explorer offers several filters that can be applied in CSS to images. This Article is a fun look at how some different effects can be applied to Virtual Earth.

Use multiple instances of Virtual Earth V5

One possible application of Virtual Earth, other than the classic application of one instance, is the use of multiple instances of VE, inside one single page. With the last release of VE, Microsoft has introduced a new functionality about mouse and keyboard events. Specifically, you can use VEMap.AttachEvent Method, to synchronize one or more instance of VE with one principal instance.

Customizing Route Pushpins in V5

Using Virtual Earth version 5.0, you can create driving routes with automatically generated pushpins along the route that contain the driving itinerary inside the pushpin bubbles.  After a VEMap.GetRoute call is made in Version 5.0, a VERoute object is returned.  The VERoute has itinerary directions but has no information as to the co-ordinate of the route pushpins and no access to their InfoBox descriptions.  This article will discuss how to manipulate these pushpins and generate your own version 5.0 route pushpins.

Browser Debugging for Virtual Earth

Tracing program execution and debugging code are two of the major challenges of developing JavaScript applications. These challenges are especially apparent in Virtual Earth, which is essentially a large obfuscated JavaScript library with limited documentation on available methods and no documentation on how the backend API works. An additional challenge when debugging Virtual Earth applications is deciphering all the CSS classes and HTML elements applied in order to display the Virtual Earth map. Fortunately, there are many available debugging tools that can be used to help you understand the back end of Virtual Earth applications. In this article, we will look at two popular debuggers for browsers that are compatible with Virtual Earth: the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (for Internet Explorer) and Firebug (for Mozilla Firefox).

Free reverse geocoding

In this article Mo Majad shows how to impliment reverse geocoding in Virtual Earth. Reverse geocoding is the process where a latitude and longitude pair is used to calculate the physical address, this service is not part of virtual earth and is one of the most requested features.