Juan DoNeblo

If you've ever tried to find a way to display an ESRI ShapeFile on a Virtual Earth map, you'll have probably noticed how little information there is on the Internet about how to accomplish this apparently arduous task. As a matter of fact, I needed to do exactly this while adding some collateral features to the software Serena and I are developing for our thesis, but after some Googling, I found that there was (and there still is) almost no useful information on how to achieve integration between...

In this article we'll see how easy it is to use Virtual Earth SDK to produce a simple mashup, using web services that provide information in JSON format. Live Demo - Source Code If you are not familiar with JSON or how to integrate JSON services in ASP.NET AJAX applications, you can take a look at my 3-part series of articles on JSON and ASP.NET AJAX here. First of all, we need to create a simple .aspx page, and add a ScriptManager to it. Then, we're going to reference the Virtual Earth API in the...

This is the third part of a series of articles on ASP.NET AJAX and JSON. If you haven't read part 1 and part 2 of this series, you are strongly advised to do so before going on to read this article. Let's take what we've seen so far on JSON and ASP.NET one step further, and discover how we can leverage the ASP.NET AJAX infastructure to make the managing of an AJAX application even sleeker. Now, let's imagine that we want to elaborate the JSON response returned from the web service before sending...