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Silverlight Bing Maps – Now with StreetSide!!

Damon Wilder Carr — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:24 +0000

This is pretty awesome. I have been deep into Bing Maps as well as the Deep Earth project and have ported it to Prism as well as the brand spanking new extension DLL for StreetSide view.

Here is what my old apartment looks like for example (and click the link to play yourself – routes, free form drawing of geometries, reverse geo-code, etc. etc.

Here is the link.

So how is this possible? I’ll keep this short and if anyone needs more I’d be happy to help.

Look close at the versions. You need the new CTP of Extended Modes and the 1.0.1.0 of the two map controls.

And using Prism makes Deep Earth a joy to work with:

Code Snippet

 <UserControl x:Class=“pushbomb.geo.poc.Page”
     xmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” 
     xmlns:x=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” xmlns:Regions=“clr-namespace:Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Presentation.Regions;assembly=Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Presentation”>
 
     <UserControl.Resources>
 
         <ResourceDictionary>
             <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
                 <ResourceDictionary Source=“/DeepEarth.BingMapsToolkit.Client.Common;component/resources/CommonStyles.xaml” />
             ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
 
         ResourceDictionary>
 
     UserControl.Resources>
 
     <Grid x:Name=“LayoutRoot” Background=“Black”>
 
         <ContentControl   Content=”{Binding Map}“ HorizontalContentAlignment=“Stretch” VerticalContentAlignment=“Stretch” >
 
         ContentControl>
 
         <ItemsControl  Regions:RegionManager.RegionName=“WidgetsRegion” />
 
     Grid>
 UserControl>

Code Snippet

 using System.Windows;
 using Microsoft.Maps.MapControl.Core;
 using Microsoft.Practices.Unity;
 using pushbomb.composite.core.Infrastructure;
 using pushbomb.composite.core.Interfaces;
 
 namespace pushbomb.geo.poc
 {
     public class MapViewModel : ViewModelBase, IMapViewContainer
     {
         private readonly InnerViewContainer<MapShellView> _inner;
 
 
         public MapViewModel(IApplicationContext context, [Dependency("Shell")] FrameworkElement view)
             : base(context, view)
         {
             _inner = new InnerViewContainer<MapShellView>(view, this);
         }
 
         #region IMapViewContainer Members
 
         public MapBase Map
         {
             get { return AppContext.Map; }
         }
 
         #endregion
 
         public override void Initialize()
         {
             InvokePropertyChanged(() => Map);
         }
     }
 \

Posted in Deep Earth, Digital Media, Framework Design, Geographic Apps, HD Video, Linq, Multithreading, PlugIns & Extensibility (MEF), Prism, silverlight 3, Siverlight, Smooth Streaming, software as strategic, Software Design, tangent.ux media platform, Technology, Tips and Tricks

Amazing Short Films from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp

Damon Wilder Carr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:14:00 +0000

What we do: We empower your content with amazing user experience while helping you manage and publish to the widest possible audience with minimal effort.

We have solved the data incompatibilities and you have one source for iTunes video podcasts, as well as all the Media RSS consumers. What you see in iTunes is using the same format for data we use internally, as well as inside Boxee and the other major distribution channels
- Oone Media RSS stream is driving everything you see as content here. We handle integrating with all of the complex metadata to seamless ‘just work’ in almost any environment.
We are one of the first to support all existing HD and non-HD formats as well as the emerging and compelling Smooth Streaming formats including Deep Zoom navigation (click to see what the Hard Rock Cafe achieved)We are the first company to deliver this for live events combined with synchronized non-static data with auto-transition to on-demand content. See our example here
EXPONENTIAL speed improvements (via the cloud-integrated Content Delivery Network)
High Definition is now possible for anyone at the levels previously reserved for a handful (Amazon-Google levels we bring to anyone)

We integrate content encoding, Podcast management and distribution, CDN deployment for amazingly fast consumer speeds, streaming media formats, new content creation, live presentation services, Synchronization – such as presentations with PowerPoint slide integration.

We get you to global best-practices in media in minimal effort or cost

Just explore what we publish such as our District 9 and DeepZoom examples. And we are not a content provider (!).

Imagine how fast and easy we can improve your exposure at nearly zero cost.

Posted in Adobe Video Formats, Art and Animation, Digital Media, HD Video, Industry News, SilverLight, silverlight 3, Smooth Streaming, tangent.ux media platform, Technology, Windows Presentation Foundation Tagged: attraction, Blink, Blomkamp, code, Content, custom, demos, director, District 9, Embeddable, extension, Films, icon, info, innovation, MRSS, Neill, Neill_Blomkamp, platform, player, server, ServiceModel, Services, Short, Still, Syndication, tangentux

Deep Zoom features updated – silverlight 3 media platform

Damon Wilder Carr — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:58:56 +0000

new deep zoom related enhancements - click below

Posted in Adobe Video Formats, Art and Animation, Cannot live Without, Digital Media, Framework Design, HD Video, Industry News, Linq, Live Smooth Streaming, SilverLight, silverlight 3, Smooth Streaming, software as strategic, tangent.ux media platform, Technology, Visual Studio 2010 Tagged: .NET, 3D, C#, deep zoom, Deep Zoom Sample, HD, media platform, New Release, nhibernate, SilverLight, silverlight 3, Software Design, tangent.ux, Video, WCF

tangent.ux media framework

Damon Wilder Carr — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:42:39 +0000

Silverlight 3

Click here for our HD Movie Trailer sample of the power our framework provides.

Click here to Install Silverlight 3

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pushbomb » tangent.ux media platform

Silverlight Bing Maps – Now with StreetSide!!

Amazing Short Films from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp

What we do: We empower your content with amazing user experience while helping you manage and publish to the widest possible audience with minimal effort.

We have solved the data incompatibilities and you have one source for iTunes video podcasts, as well as all the Media RSS consumers. What you see in iTunes is using the same format for data we use internally, as well as inside Boxee and the other major distribution channels

Oone Media RSS stream is driving everything you see as content here. We handle integrating with all of the complex metadata to seamless ‘just work’ in almost any environment.

EXPONENTIAL speed improvements (via the cloud-integrated Content Delivery Network)

High Definition is now possible for anyone at the levels previously reserved for a handful (Amazon-Google levels we bring to anyone)

We get you to global best-practices in media in minimal effort or cost

Just explore what we publish such as our District 9 and DeepZoom examples. And we are not a content provider (!).

Deep Zoom features updated – silverlight 3 media platform

new deep zoom related enhancements - click below

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