We just released the Web.Maps.VE v1.00.07 update release that includes Virtual Earth v6.1 support along with a few other things. This is our largest update release yet! We hope you enjoy all the feature modifications and additions.

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Here's a full list of this releases updates:

New Features

• Virtual Earth v6.1 - This release uses the Virtual Earth v6.1 API, instead of v6.0 that previous releases use. Note that support for all the new Virtual Earth v6.1 features have not been added yet, only the features listed below have been added.
• Bulk Loading of Shapes - This release automatically loads multiple shapes on the map using the Bulk Shape Loading technique described here, to improve performance.
• Virtual Earth Platform Customer Identification Support - The ClientToken server-side property has been added to the Map control in this release to enable Virtual Earth Platform Customer Identification for use within commercial applications. The "ontokenexpire" and "ontokenerror" client-side JavaScript events have also been added to the Map control.
• Shape.ZIndex property added
• Support for Walking Directions added - Support for walking directions have been added via the addition of the RouteMode enumerator and the addition of the RouteMode property to the RouteOptions object.
• Route.Time and RouteItineraryItem.Time properties added - These properties have been added to support getting the estimated elapsed time, in seconds, to traverse the retreived route.
• Shape.Tag property added - The Tag property (of type String) has been added to the Shape object to enable the ability to easily attach some data to the Shape. This can be used to store an ID value for the Shape that will be needed upon subsequent Async Postbacks. It is advised to store the smallest value necessary in the Tag property, since storing a large value for each Shape can potentially slow down performance during AsyncPostbacks. Also, it is unecessary to set the Shapes Tag if the Maps AsyncPostbackPassShapes property is set to False, since this causes no Shapes to be passed back to the server during Async Postbacks.
• MapActionExtender.GenerateAsyncPostback property added - When set to True, the MapActionExtender will cause the Map to generate an Asynchronous Postback after it executes the assigned MapAction. This properties Defaults is False.
• Map.ClearDirections method added - The Map.ClearDirections method is added in this release to enable the ability to clear an existing directions route from the map during an Asynchronous Postback.
• Added ability to change the MiniMapExtenders Vertical and Horizontal Side Alignment from within JavaScript API - A basic sample of using the new MiniMapExtender JavaScript API methods to change the Vertical and Horizontal Side Alignment have also been added to the Sample Website.
• MinLatitude, MaxLatitude, MinLongitude and MaxLongitude Read-Only Properties Added to the LatLongRectangle object - These properties have been added to encapsulate the simple logic of determining Min and Max Lat/Long values of a LatLongRectangle. This is done to help reduce the amount of "copy and paste" that is needed when implementing functionality such as the "dynamic" style search.

Enhancements/Fixes

• All Shapes not finished loading when OnClientMapLoaded is called issue - This issue will be fixed in this release. A description of this issue can be found here.
• JavaScript API: Map.AttachEvent and Map.DetachEvent methods added - In previous versions the only way to attach/detach map events was to use the addHandler and removeHandler methods; this version adds the AttachEvent and DetachEvent methods to the Map object to provide more similar support to that of the Virtual Earth API itself.

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