Next Monday (Sept 15th at 6pm to be exact), VTdotNet is lucky to have Mark Merchant of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit (who just so happens to reside in Vermont) do a presentation on programming with the Virtual Earth API, services and controls.

It was a good opportunity to test out the new ASP.NET control for Virtual Earth which I have embedded into the group's Upcoming Meetings page.

I don't know how to embed it into my blog post so here's a screenshot instead.

I couldn't figure out how to get the pin on there without doing some actual coding, so all this does is show you the general location. If there was a pin, it would be on the "X" in IDX Drive. By default, the control supports panning around and zooming and switching views. If you want to do things like map directions, you'd have to dig into the API and add that support in. That's why I also provided the "map it on local.live.com" link which opens up the map in Local.Live with the pin and all of the usual capabilities.

I expect to learn how to add more functionality to this at Monday's meeting!