One of the coolest things I’ve seen over the weekend is this new Virtual Earth Interactive SDK. The VE Interactive SDK gives a more visual way of learning how to program the SDK. Instead of looking up the objects and methods in the online help, the VE Interactive SDK allows you to visually create your tools and then view the code to see how the control works or just copy and paste it to your own website. Plus you can also see the VE reference right there in case you want to know more about a specific function (tabs switch between “Show Me”, “Show Source” and “Reference”). I know many programmers who work better by seeing code than trying to figure out an object model (and some programmers who haven’t a clue how to even use an object model) and this Interactive SDK will be a huge help for them.
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Rachel
// Jun 26, 2006 at 11:13 am
I haven’t bothered playing with VE yet, but had and extra hour and couldn’t resist with this really cool SDK tool/interface.
I’m hooked, this is serious fun.
I wish there were more examples integrating ASP.NET server side programming with things like the VE SDK which are basically javascript client side. Maybe because there is no point in using ASP.NET framework with VE.
The only interesting thing I’ve seen to do this is the Atlas/VE mashup: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=182077
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