Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

re: Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

John OBrien — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:23:51 GMT

The Virtual Earth control itself is now about 500KB, but it is served from Microsofts data centre's and is compressed to about 120KB. It will slow you site down just like a 120KB image would but you then get some pretty powerful functionality.

Interesting is that the extra javascript library produced to essentially turn Virtual Earth into a ASP.NET AJAX control is only 20KB. I was worried about filesize, what I've found is that becouse of this 20KB your custom javascript is either non-existant or very very small.

Both the VE javascript and this additional 20KB could be cached by the user for return visits.

What makes the page weight pretty big is then the image tiles themselves, this is defn a broadband experience.

re: Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

GrumpyWookie — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:58:29 GMT

Yep - looks awesome. I was that "one person in the crowd" - was a LOT of JavaScript & XML to integrate to a recent SharePoint publishing site...>

www.grumpywookie.com/.../a-new-view-of-melbourne

Can't wait to grab these server controls - will really push the adoption of VE into web app/s.

Just have to work on the 800KB+ download size for the ASHX handler - makes one of our pages nearly 2 MB

re: Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

Nick — Wed, 28 May 2008 01:53:24 GMT

Cool, can't wait

re: Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

MarkBrown — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:30:44 GMT

For those that are keen to being the first to get these stay tuned to what happens at Tech Ed Orlando June 2-6.

Myself and Angus Logan will have something more to share.

re: Virtual Earth Control for Visual Studio 2008 Previewed at Remix Australia

Mephiles — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:26:55 GMT

I think we'll be seeing a lot more sites using virtual earth in the future. Google Earth's imageary is horrible when you're viewing the entire earth. It makes the earth seem like a crusty desert, but Virtual Earth uses a truecolour NASA image.