I just received the slide decks from the other presenters and published them all to my SkyDrive:

Speaker: Kevin Adler

Vexcel - Extending the Virtual Earth Platform through Geospatial Expertise

Speaker: John Lee

Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth (more details about my presentation & code here)

Speaker: Me:)

Thanks to everyone who attended one of the VE Roadshow stops.  Just in case you don't remember to where to get my deck and code, here is a direct link:

http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/

As always, you can get to all of my decks, demo code, etc. by clicking the My Presentations & Downloads link in the General Links list. 

If you missed the Roadshow, you can watch a recording of my Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth webcast.  This is a shorter version of the 2 hours worth of presentation I delivered at the roadshow.  This recording is based on the v5 map control, but the good news is that everything you learn in the webcast still applies to v6!

Argh, I just beat my head against a wall trying to do this for the last couple hours:(.  After a bit of web searching, I finally found this.  So if you try to run the SQL Server 2005 installer to install the full version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you will inevitably get an "Edition Version Conflict" message.  However, the installer sends you on a wild goose chase because it just tells you to uninstall "express tools."  I did what I would guess most of you would do.  I uninstalled SSMS Express.  Then I ran the full installer again.  DOH!  Same error message (head banging began here).  Turns out that you have to do the following (pasted from the link I provided earlier) after you uninstall SSMS Express:

"1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Add or Remove Programs.
3. In the list of installed programs, click Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and
then click Change.
4. On the Component Selection page, select Workstation components, and then
click Next.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Change or Remove Instance page, click Change Installed
Components.
7. Click Client Components, and then select Entire Feature will be
Unavailable.
8. Click Next.
9. Click Install.
After that, please rerun the setup wizard and then check if the SQL Server
Client tools are able to install on the system."

Hopefully this tidbit prevents someone from banging their head!  Unless, of course, you are a Metallica fan:).

Sorry for the technical glitches today.  I know it's not the most exciting thing to watch my desktop sharing screen in complete silence as I scramble to figure out why my phone stopped working.  The deck and code are available here.  A recording should be available soon here.

John O'Brien has put together the best walkthrough of what's new in v6 that I have seen.  Check it out here.

Details here.  One of the things that may not be obvious is that the new control is backward compatible with v5.  If you have a built your solution on v5, then you can update your script reference to get all the perf enhancements in the new control!  All you have to do is change on line of code from (for example):

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=5"></script>

to

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6"></script>

October 25th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. These tools were improved on and are now integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and enhanced in the .NET Framework 3.5.  This session demonstrates the top new features in Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 for WF and WCF. This is a demo heavy session, so do not expect many slides.

Topics will include:

• Enhanced tooling for WCF
• REST/Web Programming, Syndication (RSS/ATOM), and AJAX (JSON) with WCF
• Workflow Services (exposing a Workflow as a WCF Service / Calling WCF services from a workflow)
• SharePoint Workflows

A basic understanding of WCF (http://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf) & WF (http://msdn.microsoft.com/wf) is a prerequisite for this webcast.

Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032353130&Culture=en-US

Thanks to everyone who attended the webcast today.  The deck and code are available here.  The recording should be available soon.  You can get to the recording by clicking the original registration url here.

October 16th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)

NOTE: Silverlight developers are encouraged to attend.  By attending, you will get a feel for the future design experience for Silverlight in Visual Studio.

This session will cover some of the great new features coming soon with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) designer in Visual Studio 2008.  During this webcast, you see how the Visual Studio 2008 WPF designer & Expression Blend compliment each other.  You will also learn more about the target audiences & uses for Expression Blend vs. Visual Studio 2008.

A basic understanding of WPF (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/wpf and http://wpf.netfx3.com/) is a prerequisite for this webcast.

Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032353127&Culture=en-US

I have added a few new links to my Virtual Earth Resources list from Hannes's Virtual Earth Blog.  They are:

Adding Custom Tile Layers to Virtual Earth

Creating Dynamic Tile-Layer from Static Images

Creating Dynamic Tile-Layer from OGC-compliant WMS

How-To call the MapPoint Web Service from Managed Code within SQL Server 2005

There were a handful of questions that came up for which I did not have exact answers.  Unfortunately, I feel like I have forgotten a few of them.  I should have written them down:(.  Please send me a message here with your question if I told you I would follow up.  The road show will be in Sacramento tomorrow (details here).  After Sacramento, I will post the questions and answers on my blog.  I will make sure I write down questions in Sacramento:). 

I just came across this whitepaper via Tim Sneath.  Definitely a must read for enterprises who want to deploy Silverlight.  Details here.