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Eye on Earth is a joint venture between Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) to make environmental information more accessible to European citizens. The application uses Windows Azure to gather information from 6,000 air quality monitoring stations and plot them to a Bing Map with a Sliverlight front end.

Microsoft Live Labs Pivot is amazing. Anyone have an invite? I’m really looking forward tto when they open this up and 3rd party developers can create collections.

Edit: I received an invite about an hour after I filled out the invite form.

The CodenameWindows blog has reposted a couple of recent job descriptions that give some hints about a rich client app based on Seadragon called Seahorse.

Your help can critically impact one of the most revolutionary new products being built at the company: Seahorse. We are a v1 product group within Live Labs – the people that brought you Seadragon and Photosynth . We typically don’t share much about the Seahorse vision; but we can share the following. As a sister team to Seadragon, the Seahorse vision involves building a new rich client application with deep ties to the web, web-services, Seadragon visualizations, and your client-side documents. We are – in a very real sense – hoping to redefine the way that people think about organizing, visualizing, saving, sharing and consuming large amounts of rich visual data. Succinctly, we hope to change the way people think about the internet.

Based on this blog post from 12/2007 it would appear that Seahorse has been brewing at live labs for a while.

The Expression Studio 3 Trial is now available for download. The full version which costs $599 (or $349 upgrade) is available for preorder.

Expression Studio 3 includes:

• Expression Blend 3 with SketchFlow
• Expression Web 3
• Expression Design 3
• Expression Encoder 3

Man, It’s been a while since I’ve done an update here. I’ve been completely slammed working on a Kiosk project.

Anyway… I came across this today and thought I’d post up a quick update. It’s a great video from Channel9 where Jaime Rodriguez and Anson Tsao discuss the new Multi-touch capabilities that will be available in WPF 4 Beta 1.

Wow, it seems like the web is a buzz about Blend 3 ever since I got back from MIX09. It’s great to see that the Silverlight community has a good head of steam leading up to the release of Silverlight 3.

Here’s a quick roundup of news, tips and tricks that I’ve happened upon this week.

Tutorials

• Introducing sample data support in Blend 3
• Communication between Silverlight applications on the client side
• Using Silverlight 3’s Writable Bitmap
• Using Behaviors : A Quick Walkthrough
• Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator
• Controlling an object using the Keydown function in Silverlight
• Using Blur to make Dialogs Pop in Silverlight 3

Tips & Tricks

• Styling a slider control
• Using Integers for Layout Calculations
• Silverlight 3 Out-of-browser Update Model
• Having trouble connecting to localhost when running your application from Visual Studio?
• Team Foundation Server support in Blend 3

News

• What’s new on the DataGrid control in Silverlight 3 Beta
• SketchFlow – Sketching and Prototyping in Expression Blend

Remember the early days of WPF/E when the promise was of a truly open development system? Eclipse4SL from Soyatec gets us one step closer to that promise land.

The Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight Project will integrate advanced Silverlight development capabilities into the Eclipse IDE and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

Found this today while looking at Virtual Earth integration. Sounds perfect.

InfoStrat.VE allows WPF and Microsoft Surface developers to take full advantage of Virtual Earth 3D with minimal overhead. Simply reference the dll, add a single VEMap control to your XAML, and you have a map! The control eliminates the Win32 Interop restrictions, so you can do everything with this VE control that you could do with any native WPF control, including:

• Overlay items (no more transparent windows!)
• Rotate and transform the map within the interface (no more boring rectangles, bring on the 360 degree interfaces!)
• Use the map within a Visual Brush (you know you want faded reflections!)

Jason Zander, General Manager for the Visual Studio team, has posted some early screenshots of the new Visual Studio 2010 UI to his Blog. The updated UI is built on WPF and sports a new color pallet and nice clean design.

Download Microsoft Expression Media 2 Service Pack 2 here.
According to the Expression Media site this is the list of updates/fixes.

• Importing several large images at the same time is very slow.
• XML export and import may scramble custom fields.
• Catalogs saved from a Macintosh computer lose file paths to the original media if they are opened from a server on a computer running Windows.
• Original file paths are used instead of new file paths when you are copying items to a new catalog.
• Silverlight 2.0 is not detected correctly by Mozilla Firefox browsers when you are viewing Silverlight HTML galleries.
• Thumbnails do not use the embedded color profile of a file (thumbnails must be rebuilt to see the fix).
• User preference for the rendering engine is not always used.
• After you sort in List view, right-clicking a file to open it in a default application opens the wrong file.
• Moving hierarchical keywords may incorrectly apply flat keywords to images.
• Running scripts on annotations garbles text by inserting Unicode characters.
• File paths are broken if the imported folder contains more than 1,024 subfolders.
• Reset Paths may fail when setting a path to the root of a drive.
• Expression Media 2 may crash when importing a file from a folder that has been removed from the Organize panel.
• Expression Media 2 may crash when you cancel an import and then subsequently import files from the root of a drive.
• Renaming a folder on a network share may fail and the folder may disappear from Organize panel.
• Files with names that have more than 64 characters are always imported again when you update folders in the Organize panel.
• In saved catalogs, additional folders are not added in the Organize panel when the disk volume name is the system default. Typically, the system default is “Local Disk.”
• TIFF RAW files from Phase One Digital Backs appear large in file size within a catalog.
• Random numbers may display on catalog folders if the disk doesn’t have a volume name.
• HTML gallery links display question marks when viewed in Mozilla Firefox browsers.